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February 29, 2008
Jason Gillespie retires to play in the ICL
Jason Gillespie today announced his retirement from first-class cricket in Australia. He will be signing up for the Indian Cricket League.
Gillespie was dropped from the Ashes-losing Australian side in 2005, but he made a mini-comeback when he was picked against Bangladesh. He then scored a double century against them at Chittagong, on his birthday, which is very likely to remain the highest score by a nightwatchman for a very long time!
While he did pick up 8 cheap wickets in the series, he was never recalled to the side.
Here's the stat question: Is Gillespie's 201 the second highest score made by a batsman in his last test? I know for a fact that Ponsford scored over 250 in his last test.
Labels: australia, book cricket, gillespie, indian cricket league, retire, statistic, twenty20
Thus spake Jagadish @ 1:32 pm | Sledge/Read 2 sledge(s)
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October 24, 2007
Grin and bear it?
It is totally bizarre and stinks of double-standards. Jason Gillespie's viewpoint is that the abuse that Andrew Symonds copped in India is "totally unacceptable" while he doesn't use the same words in the context of Murali being targetted by Australian spectators.
Instead, he advises Murali to 'grin and bear it'. I am emphatically against the way the crowds targetted Andrew Symonds, but for a minute, I am tempted to ask Symonds to 'grin and bear it' as well. Then again, maybe Gillespie is saying this because he's perhaps not going to return to the international side again, having been first dropped in the post-2005 Ashes cleanup and then not having been picked since April 2006 after scoring a double-century.
In fact, right now, he has the 5th highest final test innings score, behind Sandham, Ponsford, Nurse and Aravinda de Silva. Sangakkara's last test innings was 222, but he's definitely going to play another test. Gillespie? Umm, I think not!
Labels: australia, gillespie, murali, racism, sri lanka, symonds
Thus spake Jagadish @ 6:43 pm | Sledge/Read 2 sledge(s)
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