| Jason Gillespie - The
Bullet Man |
by
Karthik Narayan
A Jesus Christ look alike does play
cricket! Shocking, right? But as we speak, Jason Gillespie
runs down to bowl a delivery in the nets. The guy is a
spitting image of Jesus reincarnate! With the unshaven beard,
the long mane of this fast bowler, he does look like
Jesus...spreading the joy of love for the game to all.
He made his test debut against the
West Indies at Sydney in Dec 1996, and took two wickets on
debut in the first innings. Bowling at second change, he got
the wickets of Ambrose and Kenneth Benjamin clean bowled.
Naturally he was operating at a good pace. Though, He did not
have much bowling in the second innings thanks to the senior
bowlers Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath (later his new ball
bowling partner) who shook the West Indian batting and won the
match for Australia.
His bowling sting did not really show
in the rest of that series, he was always the second change;
the opposition would be almost on the mat by the time he came
in to bowl. So he did not have much to really look forward to,
but his first real flourish came in 1997 when Australia toured
South Africa. He returned with a tally of 14 wickets in the
three tests there.
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Statistics of Jason
Gillespie's Career :
|
Test Matches
: Batting and Fielding |
M I NO Runs HS Ave SR 100 50 Ct St
71 93 28 1218 201* 18.73 31.96 1 2 27 0
O M R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
2372.2 630 6770 259 26.13 7-37 8 0 54.95 2.85
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Name: Jason Neil Gillespie