Jason Gillespie is former Australian cricketer. He represented Australian international cricket in both Tests and OD Internationals. His primary role in cricket is as right-arm fast bowler, but he is also a competent lower-order batsman with a Test double century, an unbeaten 201. He made his Test debut against the West Indies at Sydney in 1996 and his OD International debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1996. On February 2008, Gillespie announced his retirement from first-class cricket in Australia and he played for a period in ICL (Indian Cricket League) for the Ahmadabad Rockets. At the end of the 2008 English domestic season he retired from all first-class cricket, and is currently doing team coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.
He Announced his Dream cricket team on a social media on July 2016.
Jason Gillespie Dream Cricket XI:
1. Mathew Hayden (Aus)
2. Virender Sehwag (Ind)
3. Ricky Ponting (Aus)
4. Brian lara (WI)
5. Sachin Tendulkar (Ind)
6. Jacques Kallis (SA)
7. Adam Gilchrist (Aus) -WK
8. Wasim Akram (PAK)
9. Glenn McGrath (Aus)
10. Curtley Ambros (WI)
11. Shane Warne (AUS)
Sachin Tendulkar and Virender Sehwag selected by Jason Gillespie in his all time playing XI. Former Australian pacer Jason Gillespie is the latest cricketer to reveal his all time playing eleven. The last few days have seen a host of present and former cricketers revealing their all time playing eleven. In a video posted by Lord’s Cricket Ground on their official YouTube channel, the former Australian pacer picked his best players. The criteria of the selection demanded playing with, against or influence of the players on him.
The team picked by Gillespie is undoubtedly one of the most attacking sides chosen in the last few days. Gillespie, who is currently the coach of Yorkshire county team, chose five Australians in his team while there was no place for an English, Sri Lankan or New Zealand player in the team.The former pacer went for an explosive opening pair as he selected compatriot Mathew Hayden and Virender Sehwag to open the innings.The openers will be followed by Australian great Ricky Ponting who led Australia to two World Cup triumphs. The number four position has been grabbed by West Indies great Brian Lara who holds the record of highest score by a player in Test cricket. At number five, the greatest ODI player of all time Sachin Tendulkar walks in. One of the best all-rounders of all time, Jacques Kallis has grabbed the sixth position. Legendary wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist has taken the role of wicket-keeping and finisher in the team. The bowling contingent looks very lethal. The spinner’s role has been given to the legendary Shane Warne who has taken an astonishing 708 wickets in tests. He is followed by one of the greatest swing bowlers of all time Wasim Akram. Legendary West Indian pacer Curtly Ambrose and former Australian bowler Glenn McGrath complete the lethal bowling attack.
Gillespie has named his All Time XI. The playing XI looks like a devastating line-up that can make any opposition nervous.
He has chosen the attacking duo of Virender Sehwag and Matthews Hayden to open the innings. Both can be brutal and have the ability to boss over the bowlers at their will. He remarked that Sehwag had an ‘eye like a dead fish’, meaning he could see the ball really well, almost like a football, and added that he was a bit of nightmare to bowl to. Gillespie adds more power to the middle order with the inclusion of Sachin Tendulkar. He was at a loss of words while describing Sachin, just adding that he’s an unbelievable batsman, the master blaster. Jacques Kallis takes up the all-rounder’s slot at No. 6. He was outstanding both with the bat and ball. Adam Gilchrist is the No.7 in the order and will perform the batting role as well. Gillespie believes that Gilchrist’s quality as a wicket-keeper was often understated. His bowling attack has the Sultan of Swing Wasim Akram, pace merchant Curtly Ambrose, the gentle yet highly effective Glenn McGrath and the ‘Sheikh of Tweak’ Shane Warne.
Jason Gillespie
Full name: Jason Neil Gillespie
Born: April 19, 1975, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales
Major teams: Australia, Ahmedabad Rockets, Glamorgan,South Australia, Yorkshire
Nickname: Dizzy
Playing role: Bowler
Batting style: Right-hand bat
Bowling style: Right-arm fast
Height: 1.95 m
Education: Cabra College, Adelaide
Awards
Wisden Cricket of the year: 2003
Yorkshire cap: 2007
Glamorgan cap: 2008
Jason Neil Gillespie (born 19 April 1975) is an Australian cricketer who formerly represented Australia at international level, in both Tests and One Day Internationals, and South Australia, Yorkshire and Glamorgan at first-class level. His primary role is as a right-arm fast 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 at Sydney in 1996 and hisOne Day International debut against Sri Lanka at 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 theAhmedabad 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. Gillespie is an ethical vegan.
Jason Gillespie is a descendant on his father's side of the Kamilaroi people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged Aboriginal person to become a Test cricketer. His mother has Greek heritage. He attended Cabra Dominican College in Adelaide, South Australia. Jason married Anna (née McEvoy) in 2003. The couple have four children, Jackson (born February 2006), Brandon (born October 2007) Kingston and a daughter, Delaney, born November 2012 in Yorkshire.Gillespie has another daughter, Sapphire (born March 1995) from a previous relationship.
Bowling
Gillespie took 259 wickets in 71 Tests (at an average of 26.13) making him Australia's sixth-highest wicket-taker and giving him the 14th best bowling average for Australian bowlers who have taken more than a hundred wickets.In terms of pace, he bowled in the mid 140s-150 km/h mark in his early career up to about 2001. When he made his comeback in the 2000/01 season, he bowled more consistently, but at a speed of about mid-130s-low-140s in terms of kilometres per hour. Consistent injuries forced Gillespie to operate from a shorter run-up and therefore reduce his pace. Gillespie seldom dominated a Test series (the most wickets he took in a series is 20), but he was a reliable support bowler over several years for his more famous teammates Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne. However, Gillespie's career suffered an unexpectedly sharp decline. In early 2005, there were some signs that he was struggling, with somewhat poor displays against New Zealand, but he was still considered Australia's leading fast-bowling partner for Mc Grath. This poor form continued into the 2005 Ashes series where he struggled badly, taking just three wickets at a cost of 300 runs and, as a result, was dropped after the third Test.
After the Ashes series Gillespie took 40 wickets for South Australia during the 2005/06 Pura Cup Season. He was the fourth-highest wicket taker in the competition, with an average (21.27) far below the other leading wicket takers. His best figures came against Victoria where he took 7-35. These performances saw him make a return to the Australian Test side against Bangladesh after injury problems to the first choice attack. Gillespie was named man of the series after taking 8 wickets and making a double century in the two Tests but was never selected to play for Australia again.
Batting
Gillespie has occasionally proved his worth with the bat, with a highest Test score of 201 not out and an average of 18.73. He is the only player in Test cricket with a career batting average of less than 20 to reach 200 runs in an innings. He demonstrated a solid defensive game, known amongst team-mates as 'The Walking Forward Defence', and despite not regularly making big scores, he was a difficult batsman to dismiss and occupied the crease for substantial periods of time, allowing his batting partner time to get a big score. Also, given his low back lift, he could defend or deflect shots from spin bowlers more readily. He has a one-day international high of 44 not out and he averages 12.56 in one-day internationals with an impressive strike rate of 78.53. In the second Test match against Bangladesh at Chittagong on 19 April 2006, Jason Gillespie (201 not out) set the world record (on his 31st birthday) for the highest individual score by a night watchman. This was Gillespie's maiden first-class century. Gillespie also shared a 4th wicket partnership of 320 runs with Michael Hussey. Gillespie was awarded man-of-the-match honours for his double-century in the first innings, and he was also named man of the series for his efforts that included eight wickets, at an average of 11.25, across the two Tests. Unfortunately it also was his final match in international cricket.
Gillespie made his first domestic first-class century exactly a year later on his 32nd birthday in a County Championship match versus Surrey at The Oval whilst playing for Yorkshire. He hit an unbeaten 123 and in doing so, alongside Tim Bresnan, set a record ninth-wicket partnership for Yorkshire. The pair put on 246 before Bresnan was stumped off the bowling of Nayan Doshi. Gillespie's 123 not out was also the highest score for Yorkshire by a number 10 batsman.
Gillespie made his first Australian domestic century in a Pura Cup match in the 2007/08 season against Tasmania. He put on a 250-run partnership with the South Australian wicketkeeper Graham Manou, who made 190. Gillespie remained 118 not out when the innings came to a close.
Coaching
Gillespie became a coach in Zimbabwe in August 2010. He worked primarily with the MidWest Rhinos, but he is also working on "grass roots" activities to improve the performance of young players in Zimbabwe.
Gillespie was drafted in as the bowling coach of IPL's team Kings XI Punjab after their opening match against Pune Warriors in April 2011.
In November 2011, he was named First team coach of Yorkshire after a shake up in the club's coaching system. He has been very successful at Yorkshire taking them from division two of the county championship to the first division title in three years and considered a candidate to coach England.
In April 2015 Gillespie was named as the coach of the Adelaide Strikers team in the Big Bash League. As on June 2016, he is coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. While Gillespie has criticized dairy farming and the use of leather balls, the club he coaches is sponsored by a dairy, on that he comments, "Yes, they are a sponsor but it doesn't mean I agree with what they do. It's out of my control, just like the fact that cricket balls are made of leather".
Jason Gillespie's bouncing mullet, hook nose and Spofforth-like glare were a pleasing constant in Australian pace attacks during the first half of the 2000s. It was a rare treat for Gillespie, who played only 52 of a possible 92 Tests after his 1996-97 debut thanks to an assortment of ailments: busted feet, stress fractures in the back, hip twinges, side strains, dicky shoulders, torn calves, aching hamstrings, groin complaints and a broken right leg. Each time he recovered and until being dropped during the 2005 Ashes he had missed only two Tests since November 2002. Through it all, in partnership with Glenn McGrath, he blossomed into one half of Australia's most statistically successful opening pair ever. But if McGrath's strength was his ability to make the ball do just enough, then Gillespie's flaw is his tendency for it to do too much. No other contemporary fast man has elicited so many plays-and-misses. It explains, perhaps, along with his slightly samey length, why Gillespie never quite imposed himself as Australia's No. 1 strike bowler. Nor has he truly dominated an opposition line-up; remarkably, the most wickets he has taken in a single series is 20. Operating from a shorter reconfigured run-up, he is not so consistently quick and in England Michael Vaughan treated Australia's fifth most successful bowler like a medium-pacer.
However, few Australian fast men can have owned such deep wells of tenacity. Gillespie bowls long spells in the hottest conditions - always uncomplainingly, and always with the seam upright and the ball jagging both ways - and he showed the trait again when he promised to return to the national team and memorably achieved his aim against Bangladesh. He collected eight wickets in the two-match series, taking his Test tally to 259 while McGrath, Kasprowicz and Tait were missing, but his unforgettable moment came over 574 minutes and 425 balls. His maiden century was a magnificent, unbeaten 201 that was easily the highest score by a nightwatchman.
He is popular with team-mates and bashful with the public. He watches wrestling, listens to heavy metal and celebrated his first Test fifty with a bat ride embellished from the movie Happy Gilmore. He was more restrained while clocking off unthinkable milestones at Chittagong and it was appropriate recognition for a hardy and valuable batting approach that has also produced two unbeaten half-centuries and a priceless 26, which sealed a hard-fought draw against India in 2004-05. A second first-class century came in 2007 at Yorkshire shortly before he retained his Cricket Australia contract. Throughout the previous home season he was certain he wouldn't be rewarded, but his 30 Pura Cup wickets at 28.43 helped him to sneak into the squad as experienced back-up, ending the idea of him moving states. With no chance of a recall, he announced his retirement from first-class cricket during the 2007-08 season and signed a three-year contract with the unofficial Indian Cricket League.
With a long, flowing mane and a typical Australian aggression, Jason 'Dizzy' Gillespie conjured the image of a warrior on a battlefield with the red cherry in his hand. It was probably in the genes too. Gillespie was the first recognized player with Aborigine roots to play Test cricket for Australia.
Along with Glen Mcgrath, Gillespie formed one of the most potent and feared new ball attack to have played the game. After the emergence of Brett Lee, who provided the raw pace and Mcgrath's pin-point accuracy, Gillespie seemed to be a perfect blend of the two. When he started off, the pace was hovering around the 145kmph mark. Persistent injuries forced him to reduce pace but not too much, he was still more than nippy. The worst of such injuries came in 1999 in a Test in Sri Lanka when Gillespie and his captain, Steve Waugh both went for a catch but collided with each other. This resulted in a broken leg for Gillespie and a fractured nose for Waugh.
The aforementioned injuries proved to be a bane for he never really pushed on to the higher level to become a strike bowler for Australia. This never dampened his spirits though for he continued to give his everything in the toughest of conditions and was ever-willing to put in the long spell. Never the one to back away from a challenge, he enjoyed considerable success against a certain Sachin Tendulkar. Gillespie got him out 6 times in the seven Tests he played against the master batsman.
With the bat in hand, Gillespie's sole intention was in blocking. With a tight defensive technique. He was sent in as a night-watchman on a number of occasions. He managed some vital contributions too, like the 26 he made in Chennai in 2004 and batted for a long duration along with Damien Martyn that helped Australia to a draw. The pinnacle though came against Bangladesh in 2008 when he plodded his way to an unbeaten 201. This was also his first century in first class cricket. A score that Dizzy still uses to rile up the likes of Mark Waugh, who never managed a double ton in Tests.
Sadly that series was also to be his last for Australia. He was the Man of the Match in his last game and was also the Man of the Series but was never considered for selection thereafter. He joined the now defunct Indian Cricket League after that and is now taking baby steps in the coaching sector. He began plying his trade for a domestic team in Zimbabwe and was also a member of the coaching staff for Punjab in the IPL. He was appointed as Yorkshire's coach in November 2011.
The aforementioned injuries proved to be a bane for he never really pushed on to the higher level to become a strike bowler for Australia. This never dampened his spirits though for he continued to give his everything in the toughest of conditions and was ever-willing to put in the long spell. Never the one to back away from a challenge, he enjoyed considerable success against a certain Sachin Tendulkar. Gillespie got him out 6 times in the seven Tests he played against the master batsman.
With the bat in hand, Gillespie's sole intention was in blocking. With a tight defensive technique. He was sent in as a night-watchman on a number of occasions. He managed some vital contributions too, like the 26 he made in Chennai in 2004 and batted for a long duration along with Damien Martyn that helped Australia to a draw. The pinnacle though came against Bangladesh in 2008 when he plodded his way to an unbeaten 201. This was also his first century in first class cricket. A score that Dizzy still uses to rile up the likes of Mark Waugh, who never managed a double ton in Tests.
Sadly that series was also to be his last for Australia. He was the Man of the Match in his last game and was also the Man of the Series but was never considered for selection thereafter. He joined the now defunct Indian Cricket League after that and is now taking baby steps in the coaching sector. He began plying his trade for a domestic team in Zimbabwe and was also a member of the coaching staff for Punjab in the IPL. He was appointed as Yorkshire's coach in November 2011.
