Gary John Gilmour was an Australian cricketer who played in 15 test matches and five One Day Internationals between 1973 and 1977.
59 Facts About Gary Gilmour
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Gary Gilmour was a part of the Australian squad which finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.
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At the peak of his career, Gilmour combined "talented hitting" with a "penetrative" left-arm swing bowling and slip catching.
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Gary Gilmour earned comparisons to the Australian all-rounder Alan Davidson.
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Gary Gilmour was called "Newcastle's greatest all-rounder and arguably its greatest cricketer".
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Gary John Gilmour was born on 26 June, 1951, in Waratah, Newcastle.
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Gary Gilmour attended Waratah Primary School and Newcastle Boys High School.
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Gary Gilmour was awarded two "Blues" by the New South Wales Combined High Schools Sports Association: in 1967 and 1969.
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Gary Gilmour was selected to play for Newcastle while he was a teenager.
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Gary Gilmour made his first-class debut in 1971 and was selected in the New South Wales team to play South Australia in January 1972.
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Gary Gilmour scored 40 in the first inning and 122 in the second.
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Gary Gilmour scored a duck in his next game, against Western Australia, but took four wickets with the ball.
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Gary Gilmour struggled against South Australia, scored 53 playing against the touring Pakistan side for an invitational Tasmanian side took five wickets against Victoria and five wickets plus an innings of 73 against Queensland.
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Gary Gilmour was picked in the Australian side for the first test.
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Gary Gilmour only bowled three overs in the second innings as Australia's spinners took the bulk of the wickets; New Zealand only made 200.
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Gary Gilmour was out-bowled in a Sheffield Shield game by Jeff Thomson and was made twelfth man for the third test so the Australian selectors could trial other bowlers.
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In 1974 on the New Zealand tour, Gary Gilmour played against Auckland, resulting in him taking 2 wickets and scoring 52 with the bat.
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Gary Gilmour was made twelfth man for the first two tests.
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Gary Gilmour took six wickets against Otago, which saw him back in the eleven for the third test.
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Gary Gilmour took 7 wickets in a Test at Auckland, which included 5 for 64 in the first innings to set up a series-tying victory.
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Gary Gilmour had taken 20 first class wickets on the tour at an average of just 15.
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Gary Gilmour was twelfth man in the early stages of the tournament, but selected for the semi-final against England at Headingley.
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Gary Gilmour pressed for selection in the test side with some strong performances in tour games.
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Gary Gilmour was called on only at Headingley, partly because of his World Cup effort there.
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Gary Gilmour bagged 6 for 85 in the first innings, three more in the second innings, in a game that was famously called off because protestors vandalised the pitch.
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Gary Gilmour followed this with scores of 65 and 75 and three wickets against WA.
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Gary Gilmour scored 74 against South Australia and took three wickets for NSW against the touring West Indians.
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Gary Gilmour was picked in the side for the first test against the West Indies and this time it was Max Walker who was made 12th man.
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Gary Gilmour was kept on in the second test, with Australia opting for five bowlers.
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Gary Gilmour was made 12th man for the third test with the selectors deciding to play Max Walker at his MCG home ground.
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Gary Gilmour finished the series with 20 wickets at 20.3.
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Gary Gilmour finished the summer with 104 for NSW against Victoria and 80 against South Australia.
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Gary Gilmour toured South Africa in 1976 with an International Wanderers side managed by Richie Benaud.
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Gary Gilmour came out to bat at number 11 and proceeded to hit 80 runs in 64 minutes in a partnership of 96.
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Gary Gilmour did not repeat his form in the second game or the third.
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Gary Gilmour did take seven wickets in a game against Queensland.
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Gary Gilmour was chosen over Max Walker as third paceman for the first test against Pakistan, in support of Lillee and Thomson.
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Gary Gilmour required a runner during the game, due to an injured ankle.
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Later it was revealed that Gary Gilmour had been bowling all summer with a bone "the size of a five-cent piece" floating around his heel.
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Gary Gilmour kept his place in the side for the Centenary Test at Melbourne in March 1977.
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Gary Gilmour later says he "was a fool" for not pulling out of the test.
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Gary Gilmour had an operation to remove the bone shortly afterwards.
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Gary Gilmour was given a month to lose the weight and succeeded.
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Gary Gilmour toured the West Indies in 1978 with the Australian World Series team.
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Gary Gilmour was selected in the NSW side for the first Sheffield Shield game of the season, against WA.
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Gary Gilmour was dropped for the next game in favour of Richard Done.
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Gary Gilmour was recalled to play Tasmania in a McDonald's Cup one-day game.
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Gary Gilmour did score a 102 off 101 balls for Country Northern against Country Southern.
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Gary Gilmour was made a member of Waratah Primary School's Hall of Fame.
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Gary Gilmour suffered poor health in the last years of his life.
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Gary Gilmour had a congenital narrowing of the main artery to the liver and underwent a liver transplant in 2005.
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Gary Gilmour suffered ill-health for many years, which was exacerbated by a fall.
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Gary Gilmour died at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney on 10 June 2014.
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Gary Gilmour was married to Helen and together they had four children, Clint, Ben, Sam and Brooke.
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Clint Gary Gilmour predeceased his father, dying of brain cancer aged 33 in March 2014.
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Gary Gilmour was actually quite retiring, but he was always up for a bit of fun.
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Gary Gilmour never seemed to take his cricket all that seriously, in that country way.
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Gary Gilmour was a very popular person, Gus, a bit of a larrikin and very much liked by everyone.
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Gary Gilmour didn't take life all that seriously, played for the enjoyment of it.