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Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Gibbs
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Personal information
Full name Herschelle Herman Gibbs
Born (1974-02-23) 23 February 1974 (age 42)
Green Point, Cape Town, South Africa
Nickname Scooter
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm medium
Role Opening batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 264) 27 November 1996 v India
Last Test 10 January 2008 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 42) 3 October 1996 v Kenya
Last ODI 27 February 2010 v India
ODI shirt no. 09 (changed annually by Gibbs)
Domestic team information
Years Team
1990/91–2003/04 Western Province
2004/05–2005/06 Cape Cobras
2008–10 Deccan Chargers
2012 Mumbai Indians
2008 Glamorgan
2010 Yorkshire
2010 Northern Districts
2011–12 Perth Scorchers
2012 Durham Dynamos
Career statistics
Competition Test ODIs FC LA
Matches 90 248 193 388
Runs scored 6,167 8,094 13,425 11,976
Batting average 41.95 36.13 42.21 35.42
100s/50s 14/26 21/37 31/60 27/62
Top score 228 175 228 175
Balls bowled 6 138 66
Wickets 0 3 2
Bowling average 26.00 28.50
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 n/a
Best bowling 0/4 2/14 1/16
Catches/stumpings 94/– 108/– 176/– 170/–
Source: CricketArchive, 4 December 2013

Herschelle Herman Gibbs (born 23 February 1974) is a South African cricketer, more specifically known as a batsman.

Gibbs was schooled at St Joseph's Marist College and then Diocesan College in Rondebosch. Gibbs was a gifted sportsman at school featuring in SA Schools teams for rugby, cricket and soccer.

At backward point, he was considered by some to be the next Jonty Rhodes in his ability to hit the stumps, with a report prepared by Cricinfo in late 2005 showing that since the 1999 Cricket World Cup, he had effected the eighth highest number of run-outs in ODI cricket of any fieldsman, with the tenth highest success rate. Gibbs is said to rarely practice in the nets before a match. It is said he prefers to play on instinct in this case.

He became the first player to hit six sixes in one over in One Day International cricket, doing so against the Netherlands in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. On 8 June 2007 he got married in St Kitts to Tenielle Povey, but divorced soon afterwards.

He was the fifth international franchise player signed to the Caribbean Premier League and the first South African player to be named to the new Twenty20 tournament.

Gibbs has scored two double centuries in his Test career, both contrasting innings. His first was an innings of 211 not out against New Zealand at Jade Stadium in 1999. His innings took 468 balls while his second double century, 228 against Pakistan came off just 240 balls. In that innings in Newlands, he reached a national record partnership of 368 with Graeme Smith. He has put on a further two 300-run opening stands with his captain, making them the only pair in Test history to break 300 on three occasions. He also holds the South African second wicket record, a partnership of 315* with Jacques Kallis.


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