Friday, August 23, 2013

Herschelle Gibbs

5. HERSCHELLE GIBBS:
He is a is a South African cricketer, more specifically known as a batsman he was the first batsman in the world who hit six sixes in 1 over during worldcup 2007 against nether land controversies on Gibbs .
  • In 2001 Gibbs was fined along with several teammates for smoking marijuana during that year’s tour of the West Indies.
  • Most notoriously, Gibbs was involved in the match fixing affair with former captain Hansie Cronje, who offered him $15,000 to score “less than 20″ in the 3rd One-day International of a series. He tearfully claimed to the King Commission of inquiry into corruption in South African cricket that he did not follow through on his side of the bargain, in fact scoring a fine 74. As a result he was banned for only six months.
  • He repeatedly refused to tour India fearing arrest and refused to even speak to Indian Police over the matter. However, Gibbs was named in the South African squad to tour India in the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, and as a result, he had to meet with Indian Police over his involvement in the match-fixing scandal..

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