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Full name | Herschelle Herman Gibbs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa | 23 February 1974||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Scooter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Opening batsman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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National side |
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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 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
T20I debut (cap 3) | 21 October 2005 v New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last T20I | 10 May 2010 v Pakistan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1990/91–2003/04 | Western Province | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2005/06–2011/12 | Cape Cobras | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008–2010 | Deccan Chargers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2008–2009 | Glamorgan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010 | Yorkshire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2010/11 | Northern Districts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011/12–2012/13 | Perth Scorchers | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | Khulna Royal Bengals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | Mumbai Indians | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012 | Durham | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2012/13 | Titans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2013 | St Lucia Zouks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source: ESPNcricinfo, 4 August 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Herschelle Herman Gibbs (born 23 February 1974) is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer, who played all formats of the game for fourteen years. A right-handed batsman,who mostly opened the batting, Gibbs became the first player to hit six consecutive sixes in one over in One Day International (ODI) cricket, doing so against the Netherlands in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.
Regarded as one of the most naturally talented cricketers South Africa have ever produced, Gibbs was also known as an excellent fielder, like his compatriot Jonty Rhodes, with former Australian captain Ricky Ponting noting that in his opinion Gibbs is better than Rhodes in his ability to hit the stumps,[1] with a report prepared by ESPNcricinfo 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.[2]