Herschelle Gibbs
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"Herschelle Herman Gibbs" is a South African cricketer, more specifically known as a batsman.

Gibbs was schooled at St Joseph's Marist College and then Diocesan College in Rondebosch. Gibbs was a gifted sportsman at school featuring in SA Schools teams for rugby, cricket and soccer.

At backward point, he was considered by some to be the next Jonty Rhodes in his ability to hit the stumps, with a report prepared by Cricinfo 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. Gibbs is said to rarely practice in the cricket nets/nets before a match. It is said he prefers to play on instinct in this case.

He became the first player to hit six sixes in one over in One Day International cricket, doing so against the Dutch cricket team/Netherlands in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. On 8 June 2007 he got married in St Kitts to Tenielle Povey, but divorced soon afterwards.

He was the fifth international franchise player signed to the Caribbean Premier League and the first South African player to be named to the new Twenty20 tournament.

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I am extremely disappointed at having to declare myself unavailable for the tour. The questions sent from Delhi were very similar to those I answered four years ago. I have served my ban and in the process learnt a very hard lesson.

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It's disappointing. I was trying to keep my end up as long as I could and at the same time play my natural game, which they didn't make too easy. We didn't get enough partnerships together, like they did in their first innings.

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I am withdrawing from the World XI side.

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I'll be happy to move back up the order.

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He deserves credit for the way in which he batted in Australia and he has now cemented his place.

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Obviously my first objective will be to ensure a good start for the Cobras, but obviously I also intend taking the opportunity of showing what I can do at the start.

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I think I was quite clever about it. I could have still carried on fielding against Sri Lanka, but I approached Graeme on the field and I told him 'If I go off now, it probably won't be as bad'. I probably did the right thing.

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