Herschelle Herman Gibbs was born on 23 February 1974 and is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer, who played all formats of the game for fourteen years.
42 Facts About Herschelle Gibbs
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Herschelle Gibbs held the record for the highest score in a successful run-chase until it was beaten by MS Dhoni.
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Herschelle Gibbs was schooled at St Joseph's Marist College and then Diocesan College in Rondebosch.
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Herschelle Gibbs was a gifted sportsman at school featuring in SA Schools teams for rugby, cricket and soccer.
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At Diocesan College Herschelle Gibbs played for their First Rugby XV in the same team alongside Robbie Fleck, Selborne Boome and Dave von Hoesslin who would all go on to become Springboks.
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Herschelle Gibbs played alongside Springboks star Percy Montgomery for Western Province in Craven Week 1992.
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On 8 June 2007 Herschelle Gibbs married Tenielle Povey in St Kitts, but divorced soon afterwards.
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Herschelle Gibbs has scored two double centuries in his Test career, both contrasting innings.
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Herschelle Gibbs's first was an innings of 211 not out against New Zealand at Jade Stadium in 1999.
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Herschelle Gibbs's innings took 468 balls while his second double century, 228 against Pakistan came off just 240 balls.
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Herschelle Gibbs has put on a further two 300-run opening stands with his captain, making them the only pair in Test history to break 300 on three occasions.
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Herschelle Gibbs holds the South African second wicket record, a partnership of 315* with Jacques Kallis.
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Herschelle Gibbs famously dropped a catch in a World Cup game against Australia in 1999, when he attempted to throw the ball up into the air in celebration before he had full control of it.
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Waugh did state that teammate Shane Warne had noticed that Herschelle Gibbs had developed a habit of throwing the ball in the air prematurely after taking catches and instructed his colleagues not to leave the crease too quickly if they happened to be caught by Herschelle Gibbs, just in case the situation that happened to Waugh should actually occur.
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On 6 October 2002, in Potchefstroom, in a match against Bangladeshis, Herschelle Gibbs had a chance to become the first ever batsman to score four hundreds in a row.
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South Africa was set the target of 155 for victory, and Herschelle Gibbs fell just three runs short, finishing unbeaten on 97.
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On 12 March 2006, Herschelle Gibbs played a monumental innings in the 5th ODI against Australia, scoring 175 off just 111 balls leading South Africa to victory.
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Herschelle Gibbs was batting with Graeme Smith after Boeta Dippenaar was out on 1 bowled by Nathan Bracken.
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Herschelle Gibbs scored 126 runs in boundaries, the most ever by a batsman.
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Herschelle Gibbs's six hitting form continued throughout the tournament and when he hit Jacob Oram into the stands during a Super Eight match he drew level with Australian batsman Ricky Ponting on 28 for most sixes in World Cup history.
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On 22 April 2006, Herschelle Gibbs paid the price for his recent run-drought, and was dropped for the second and third Tests against the New Zealand cricket team.
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Herschelle Gibbs has been short of confidence in Test cricket of late, and scored only 6 and 2 in the First Test at Centurion Park.
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Herschelle Gibbs came back into the side in the middle order but continued to struggle for runs.
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Herschelle Gibbs had come close on many occasions to ending the drought, getting out in the nineties four times.
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Herschelle Gibbs stated that his aim was to play in the 2011 Cricket World Cup.
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Herschelle Gibbs played for Glamorgan in the 2008 County Twenty20 tournament where he had a successful time; his highest score being 98 off just 52 balls in a losing game against Northants.
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Herschelle Gibbs then signed up to play for Glamorgan for the 2009 County season, replacing Mark Cosgrove as the overseas player at the end of June.
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Herschelle Gibbs represented Glamorgan in two NatWest Pro40 League matches in that same season.
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Herschelle Gibbs then signed for Yorkshire Carnegie for the 2010 Friends Provident t20 tournament, where he was their overseas player, scoring 101 from 53 balls against Northamptonshire to achieve his first century in English T20 cricket.
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Herschelle Gibbs did a brilliant job for the team so much so that they made it to the final.
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Herschelle Gibbs scored 302 runs in 7 matches with an average of 43.14.
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Herschelle Gibbs played a crucial role in the finals by scoring an unbeaten 53 in the final when Adam Gilchrist went out for a duck.
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Herschelle Gibbs took a crucial catch off Mark Boucher at point when the Royal Challengers were cruising to the victory.
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In 2001, Herschelle Gibbs was fined along with several teammates for smoking marijuana during that year's tour of the West Indies.
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Herschelle Gibbs was involved in the match fixing affair with former captain Hansie Cronje, who offered him $15,000 to score "less than 20" in the 5th One-Day International of a series.
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Herschelle Gibbs tearfully claimed to the King Commission of inquiry into corruption in South African cricket that he did not follow through on his side of the bargain, scoring 74 runs.
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Herschelle Gibbs repeatedly refused to tour India fearing arrest and refused to even speak to Indian Police over the matter.
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However, Herschelle Gibbs was named in the South African squad to tour India in the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, and as a result, met with Indian Police over his involvement in the match-fixing scandal.
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Herschelle Gibbs's words had been picked up on the stump microphone saying remarks such as "go back to the zoo" and swearing to the Pakistani players and as a result heard across the world.
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The Pakistani management made an official complaint to referee Chris Broad and Herschelle Gibbs was banned for two Tests.
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Herschelle Gibbs appealed against the ban but this was rejected by the ICC's code of conduct commissioner, Richie Benaud.
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In July 2019, Herschelle Gibbs was appointed as the head coach of the Rotterdam Rhinos for the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.