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
Nickname	Scooter
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right arm medium
Role	Opening batsman
International information
National side	South Africa (1996–2010)
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
Domestic team information
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
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 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]