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Dion Yatras

Zimbabwean cricketer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ107541554 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dion Yatras (born 26 August 1968) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played six first-class matches for Manicaland between 2000 and 2002.

He was born in Umtali (now Mutare), the son of Spiro Yatras.

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“Dion Yatras” enters the record as zimbabwean cricketer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dion, Yatras and Zimbabwean can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1968, 2000, 2002—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-08-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dion, Yatras and Zimbabwean.
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“Dion Yatras” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dion, Yatras and Zimbabwean provides the most credible route into that argument.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dion Yatras” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.