Jason Gillespie
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"Jason Neil Gillespie" is an Australian cricketer who formerly represented Australia national cricket team/Australia at international level, in both Test cricket/Tests and One Day Internationals, and Southern Redbacks/South Australia, Yorkshire County Cricket Club/Yorkshire and Glamorgan County Cricket Club/Glamorgan at first-class level. His primary role is as a right-arm fast bowling/fast-medium bowler, but he is 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 cricket team/West Indies at Sydney Cricket Ground/Sydney in 1996 and his One Day International debut against Sri Lankan cricket team/Sri Lanka at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground/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, and is currently the first team coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

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I think I am a real show for the Test tour [of South Africa].

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I've had a ball. There was just a sense of disbelief. You've got to put it in perspective though, I'm a bowler who bats a bit and let's just leave it at that.

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For any guy that has been dropped, that is something you can look towards -- if you do perform again, the opportunities are there.

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It was not very easy, putting your head down and batting in the heat. I think I am developing into an all rounder.

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I thought I was no hope. But you have to take your opportunities as they come and hopefully I can do that this trip.

118

They say Shaun's similar to Brett but, at the end of the day, they're wicket-takers. I'd love to go, don't get me wrong, but with Shaun there's a bloke who bowls 150kmh while swinging the ball, and gets audacious reverse-swing. Shaun bowled some of the fastest deliveries I've seen last Sunday.

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I am naturally very, very happy to get the century because I thought the Bangladesh bowlers were not that bad.

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