Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Gibbs
Gibbs in 2009
Personal information
Full name
Herschelle Herman Gibbs
Born (1974-02-23) 23 February 1974 (age 50)
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
NicknameScooter
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight arm medium
RoleOpening batsman
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 264)27 November 1996 v India
Last Test10 January 2008 v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 42)3 October 1996 v Kenya
Last ODI27 February 2010 v India
T20I debut (cap 3)21 October 2005 v New Zealand
Last T20I10 May 2010 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1990/91–2003/04Western Province
2005/06–2011/12Cape Cobras
2008–2010Deccan Chargers
2008–2009Glamorgan
2010Yorkshire
2010/11Northern Districts
2011/12–2012/13Perth Scorchers
2012Khulna Royal Bengals
2012Mumbai Indians
2012Durham
2012/13Titans
2013St Lucia Zouks
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I
Matches 90 248 23
Runs scored 6,167 8,094 400
Batting average 41.95 36.13 18.18
100s/50s 14/26 21/37 0/3
Top score 228 175 90*
Catches/stumpings 94/– 108/– 8/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 4 August 2017
Medal record
Representing  South Africa
Men's Cricket
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1998 Kuala Lumpur List-A cricket

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]

  1. ^ cricket.com.au (21 May 2017), Ponting's Top Five fielders of all time, archived from the original on 22 December 2021, retrieved 27 November 2017
  2. ^ "Statistics – Run outs in ODIs". ESPNcricinfo. 8 November 2005.