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Jason Gillespie

Jason Gillespie
Jason Gillespie Portrait.jpg
Personal information
Full name Jason Neil Gillespie
Born (1975-04-19) 19 April 1975 (age 41)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nickname Dizzy
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Role Bowler
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 370) 29 November 1996 v West Indies
Last Test 16 April 2006 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 127) 30 August 1996 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 12 July 2005 v England
ODI shirt no. 4
Domestic team information
Years Team
1994-2008 South Australia
2006-2007 Yorkshire
2008 Glamorgan
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 n/a 2 n/a
Best bowling 7/37 5/22 8/50 5/22
Catches/stumpings 27/– 10/– 68/– 31/–
Source: cricinfo.com, 19 November 2008

Jason Neil Gillespie (born 19 April 1975) was an Australian cricketer who represented Australia at international level, in both Tests and One Day Internationals, and South Australia, Yorkshire and Glamorgan at first-class level. His primary role was as a right-arm fast bowler, but he was also a competent lower-order batsman with a Test double century, an unbeaten 201. He was an AIS Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1995. He made his Test debut against the West Indies at Sydney in 1996 and his One Day International debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in the Singer World Series in 1996. On 29 February 2008, Gillespie announced his retirement from first-class cricket in Australia and then played for a period in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League for the Ahmedabad Rockets. At the end of the 2008 English domestic season he retired from all first-class cricket. As Yorkshire County Cricket Club's first team coach from 2012 to 2016, he guided them to two County Championship titles. Gillespie is an ethical vegan.

Jason Gillespie is a descendant on his father's side of the Kamilaroi people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged Aboriginal person to become a Test cricketer. His mother has Greek heritage. He attended Cabra Dominican College in Adelaide, South Australia. Jason married Anna (née McEvoy) in 2003. The couple have four children, Jackson (born February 2006), Brandon (born October 2007) Kingston (birthdate unknown) and a daughter, Delaney, born November 2012 in Yorkshire. Gillespie has another daughter, Sapphire (born March 1995) from a previous relationship.


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