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Full name | Peter Gerard Gillespie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Strabane, Northern Ireland | 11 May 1974||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Relations | Mark Gillespie (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ODI debut (cap 3) | 13 June 2006 v England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last ODI | 9 April 2007 v New Zealand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ODI shirt no. | 05 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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ESPNcricinfo, 2 April 2017 |
Peter Gerard Gillespie (born 11 May 1974) is a Northern Irish former cricketer. [1] A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, [2] he had played for the Ireland cricket team 116 times up to the start of the 2007 World Cup, [3] including twelve first-class matches [4] and 35 List A matches, [5] four of which were One Day International. [6] Only three players have played more times for Ireland. [7]
Born 11 May 1974 in Strabane, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland, [2] Gillespie made his debut for Ireland on 6 June 1995 against the Duchess of Norfolk's XI at Arundel Castle. He played the following day against the MCC at Lord's. [3] Later in the month, he made his List A debut against Yorkshire in the NatWest Trophy. [5] He then represented Ireland in the Triple Crown Tournament the following month. [8] He played just twice for Ireland in 1996, [3] a Benson & Hedges Cup match against Gloucestershire in May [5] and his first-class debut against Scotland in August. [4]
Gillespie was named in the Ireland squad for the 1997 ICC Trophy and played in nine matches. [9] In the second round match against Hong Kong, he took 3/42, [10] his best bowling figures in all matches for Ireland. [3]
Gillespie played two more games for Ireland in 1997, both Benson & Hedges Cup games, against Middlesex and Glamorgan. [5] In 1998, he began to become a more regular fixture in the Irish side. That year, he played against the MCC, Bangladesh, [3] a NatWest Trophy match against Warwickshire, [5] South Africa (twice) and Australia [4] in addition to the Triple Crown [11] and the European Championship. [12] He also represented Northern Ireland in the cricket tournament at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, [5] the only time to date that cricket has featured in the Commonwealth Games.
The following year, he played first-class matches against the South Africa Academy and Scotland [4] and again played in the Triple Crown. [13]
The 21st century started for Peter Gillespie with a trip to Zimbabwe to play in the ICC Emerging Nations tournament, [14] highlighted by an innings of 74 against Denmark. [3] That year he also played against the MCC, Zimbabwe [3] and in the European Championship. [15]
He was not selected for the Ireland squad for the 2001 ICC Trophy, [9] but came back into the side in August, [3] playing in the Triple Crown [8] and in the C & G Trophy against Wiltshire and the Hampshire Cricket Board. [5] He won the man of the match award for an innings of 66 in the match against Wiltshire. [16]
2002 started with a C & G Trophy match against Nottinghamshire [3] [5] and continued with a match against West Indies A in which he scored 88, his highest score for Ireland at that time, [3] again picking up the man of the match award. [17] He then played in the European Championship [18] and against the MCC and Berkshire. [3]
2003 was a busy year, with matches against Zimbabwe, South Africa, the MCC, the Free Foresters and Hertfordshire, amongst others. [3] In 2004, he played in Ireland's famous wins over Surrey in the C & G Trophy, which was only Ireland's second win over a first-class county [19] and the West Indies, [20] Ireland's third win over the West Indies, [21] also playing in the European Championship, [22] two matches against Bangladesh, once against the MCC [3] and ICC Intercontinental Cup games against Scotland and the Netherlands. [4]
Gillespie was named in the Ireland squad for the 2005 ICC Trophy [23] and warmed up with his first century for Ireland, scoring 102 not out against the MCC in June. [3] He played in five matches in the tournament itself, [9] without much success until the semi-final against Canada, where he scored 64 not out to help lead Ireland to the final, winning the man of the match award in the process. [24]
Also in 2005, he played against Loughborough UCCE, Warwickshire and Yorkshire, [3] in addition to playing in Intercontinental Cup games against the Netherlands, Scotland, the UAE and the final against Kenya, [4] which Ireland won. [25]
2006 saw Ireland gain One Day International status, and Gillespie played in the first three of Ireland's such games against England, Scotland and the Netherlands. [6] He did not meet with much success in those games however, being dismissed for a duck in each of them. The first match saw him dismissed on the third ball, the second on the second ball, and the third on the first ball. [26]
That year, he also played in all nine of Ireland's C & G Trophy games, [5] against the MCC, [3] in the European Championship [27] and Intercontinental Cup games against Scotland and Namibia. [4]
He was named in Ireland's squad for Division One of the World Cricket League in January/February 2007, [28] but he only played in the match against Kenya. [6] He then played in an Intercontinental Cup game against the UAE [3] before being named in Ireland's squad for the 2007 World Cup. [29]
He did not play in Ireland's first round matches as they beat Pakistan [30] and tied against Zimbabwe [31] to reach the Super 8 stage, and missed the first two matches in that stage [32] before playing in the third match against New Zealand. [6]
In all matches for Ireland up until the 2007 World Cup, Gillespie scored 2599 runs at an average of 27.65, and took 18 wickets at an average of 37.33. [3]
Gillespie comes from a cricketing family, with three other members of his family all playing for Strabane, his club side in Ireland. [26] His brother Mark also represented Ireland internationally. [2]