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Top 10 Interesting Facts about Herschelle Gibbs

Herschelle Herman Gibbs is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer who played all formats of cricket for fourteen years.

A right-handed batsman mostly opening the batting, Gibbs became the first player to hit six consecutive sixes in one over in One Day International (ODI) cricket. This happened during a cricket match against the Netherlands in the 2007 Cricket World Cup.

Gibbs married in the year 200 on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts in a fairy-style wedding with Tenielle Povey. After a year, in 2008, the couple divorced, and he has remained single.

Learn more about Herschelle Gibbs in these top 10 interesting facts.

1. Herschelle Gibbs Educational Background

He was born on February 23, 1974, at Green Point in Cape Town. For his formal education, he was schooled at St. Joseph’s Marist College and then Diocesan College in Rondebosch, and from childhood, he loved sports.

While at school, he was a gifted sportsman at school featuring in South African teams for cricket, soccer and rugby. At Diocesan College, Gibbs played for their First Rugby XV in the same team alongside Robbie Fleck, Selborne Boome and Dave von Hoesslin, who would all become Springboks.

2. Gibbs Had a Tactful Playing Style

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Gibbs is the batsman who rarely depends on copy book style of batting. He is a right-handed batsman and is said never to have practiced in the nets before the matches as he believes some shots come instantaneously in the matches.

For bowling, he is a right-arm medium. This tactic helps practitioners of pace bowling, usually known as quicks, pacemen and fast bowlers.

He was mostly an opening batsman. Opening batsmen are the batters who bat first in the innings; the position is very important as the openers need to get the innings off to a good start.

3. Gibbs Used to Coach

Gibbs was appointed as the head coach of the Rotterdam Rhinos in July 2019 for the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament. Before this, he also had the experience of coaching teams in the Shpageeza Cricket League and Kuwait’s national squad.

In November 2020, Gibbs was selected by the Colombo Kings as the Head Coach for the inaugural edition of the Lanka Premier League. He was also selected as the new head coach of Karachi Kings in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) on January 2, 2021.

4. Gibbs Century in Three Back-to-Back Innings

He is one of the only five batsmen in One Day International (ODI) to score hundreds in three consecutive innings, others being Quinton de Kock, AB de Villiers, Zaheer Abbas and Saeed Anwar.

Gibbs scored three back-to-back hundreds against Kenya, India and Bangladesh. He struck 116 against Kenya in September 2002, followed up with an unbeaten 116 against India in the next match.

The third was when Bangladesh visited South Africa; he scored 153 against Bangladesh. Gibbs almost hit his 4th century when South Africa was chasing 155 for the win. Unfortunately, his record was broken by Sri Lankan batsman Kumar Sangakkara when he hit four consecutive hundreds and became the only player to do so.

5. Gibbs Was Involved in Match Fixing Saga

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After South Africa toured India in 2000, Delhi police charged Hansie Cronje for fixing his team One Day International (ODI’s) for money on April 7, 2000. Cronje had initially denied the allegation.

On April 11, 2000, Cronje confessed to the match mixing. Later on, June 8, 2000, Gibbs admitted to accepting an offer from his captain Hansie Cronje to make less than 20 runs in a match in return for $15,000.

It was said that it was the fourth ODI in which Gibbs was asked to under-perform, but he went on to make 72 and still lost that match. After the scandal, he was banned for the remaining year from international cricket.

6. Gibbs International Career

He played for the South Africa National Cricket team for his international career. He made his first One Day International (ODI) debut against Kenya in 1996 and came into bat at number 4, scoring 17 runs in the match.

In a match between Australia and South Africa in ICC Cricket World Cup 1999, Gibbs dropped an easy catch at the mid-wicket; it was the last ball of the 31st over bowled by Lance Klisener. Later Australia won the match as Waugh went on to score a century.

7. Gibbs Played for County Cricket

In 2008, Gibbs played for Glamorgan in the 2008 County Twenty-20 tournament, where he had a successful time. His highest score was 98 off 52 balls in a losing game against Northants.

Gibbs was then signed up to play for Glamorgan for the 2009 County season, replacing Mark Cosgrove as the overseas player at the end of June. He then represented Glamorgan in two NatWest Pro40 League matches in that same season.

Subsequently, he signed for Yorkshire Carnegie for the 2010 Friends Provident t20 tournament and was their overseas player, scoring 101 from 53 balls against Northamptonshire to achieve his first century in English T20 cricket.

8. Gibbs Played League Cricket

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In 2008, he joined the Deccan Chargers of the Indian Premier League. He failed the first but performed well in the second season and formed the most destructive opening pair with Adam Gilchrist in the tournament.

He later joined the Mumbai Indians franchise. In the 2011-2012 season, the Perth Scorchers signed Gibbs for their campaign in the Australian Big Bash League, and he performed well for the team and made it to the final.

During a new T20 championship in Bangladesh, the Khulna Royal Bengals in the Bangladesh Premier League bought him for $50000 as their team member on January 19, 2012. In the inaugural edition of Kashmir Premier League 2021, he was the only foreign player to join the tournament.

9. Gibbs Made the Famous Chase of 434

On March 12, 2006, Gibbs played the best innings of his career while chasing a humongous total of 434 scored by Australia at Johannesburg. This was the highest run chase ever made across the formats in the history of cricket.

Gibbs scored 175 runs from just 111 balls, with 21 boundaries and seven sixes. It was the highest individual score by any player against Australia in ODI’s till Rohit Sharma scored a double hundred against the Kangaroos.

10. Gibbs Partnership Records

During Gibbs’s innings of 228 against Pakistan at Newlands, he formed a 368-run partnership with Graeme Smith for the first wicket, a South African record. He recorded another couple of 300-run opening stands with his captain, making them the only pair in Test history to break 300 on three occasions. He holds the South African second-wicket record, a partnership of 315* with Jacques Kallis.