Jason Gillespie

Jason Gillespie
Personal information
Full name
Jason Neil Gillespie
Born (1975-04-19) 19 April 1975 (age 49)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
NicknameDizzy
Height195 cm (6 ft 5 in)
BattingRight-handed
BowlingRight-arm fast
RoleBowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 370)29 November 1996 v West Indies
Last Test16 April 2006 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 127)30 August 1996 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI12 July 2005 v England
ODI shirt no.4
Only T20I (cap 12)13 June 2005 v England
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1994/95–2007/08South Australia
2006–2007Yorkshire
2008Glamorgan
Head coaching information
YearsTeam
2010–2012Mid West Rhinos
2012–2016Yorkshire
2017Papua New Guinea (interim)
2018–2020Sussex
2020–2024South Australia
2024–Pakistan (Tests)
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 71 97 189 192
Runs scored 1,218 201 3,742 640
Batting average 18.73 12.56 19.59 14.22
100s/50s 1/2 0/0 3/10 0/0
Top score 201* 44* 201* 44*
Balls bowled 14,234 5,144 35,372 10,048
Wickets 259 142 613 255
Bowling average 26.13 25.42 26.98 27.40
5 wickets in innings 8 3 22 3
10 wickets in match 0 0 2 0
Best bowling 7/37 5/22 8/50 5/22
Catches/stumpings 27/– 10/– 68/– 31/–
Medal record
Men's Cricket
Representing  Australia
ICC Cricket World Cup
Winner 2003 South Africa-Zimbabwe-Kenya
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 22 November 2021

Jason Neil Gillespie (born 19 April 1975) is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer who played all three formats of the game. Gillespie is currently the head coach of the Pakistan men's team in Test Cricket.

A right-arm fast bowler, he was also a competent lower-order batsman whose unbeaten 201 in his last Test match is the highest score by a night-watchman in international cricket. He was a part of the Australian squad which won the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

Gillespie made his One Day International debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in the Singer World Series in August 1996, and his Test debut against the West Indies at Sydney in November 1996. He also played for South Australia, Yorkshire and Glamorgan at first-class level, and was an AIS Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1995.[1]

Gillespie announced his retirement from first-class cricket in Australia in February 2008. He then played in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League for the Ahmedabad Rockets.[2][3] At the end of the 2008 English domestic season he retired from all first-class cricket.[4]

  1. ^ Excellence : the Australian Institute of Sport. Canberra: Australian Sports Commission. 2002.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Cricket Country-2014 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Cricket on Times of India. Live Cricket Score, Cricket News, India Cricket" (in French). Cricket.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 26 June 2013.
  4. ^ Gillespie happy with retirement decision, ESPNcricinfo, Retrieved on 9 November 2008