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Full name Trevor Raymond Gripper
Born December 28, 1975, Salisbury (now Harare)
Current age 32 years 288 days
Major teams Zimbabwe,Mashonaland,Mashonaland A,Matabeleland
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Relations Father - RA Gripper
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
20
38
1
809
112
21.86
2473
32.71
1
5
96
2
14
0
ODIs
8
8
0
80
26
10.00
187
42.78
0
0
5
0
4
0
First-class
62
111
7
3515
234
33.79
5
26
56
0
List A
37
35
3
921
103
28.78
1
5
18
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
20
20
793
509
6
2/91
2/91
84.83
3.85
132.1
0
0
0
ODIs
8
6
120
76
2
2/28
2/28
38.00
3.80
60.0
0
0
0
First-class
62
4430
2486
78
5/40
31.87
3.36
56.7
2
0
List A
37
718
599
15
3/34
3/34
39.93
5.00
47.8
0
0
0
Career statistics
Test debut
Zimbabwe v Australia at Harare, Oct 14-17, 1999 scorecard
Last Test
Zimbabwe v Bangladesh at Bulawayo, Feb 26-Mar 1, 2004 scorecard
Test statistics
ODI debut
Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Sharjah, Oct 28, 2001 scorecard
Last ODI
Zimbabwe v West Indies at Harare, Nov 26, 2003 scorecard
ODI statistics
First-class span
1996/97 - 2005
List A span
1997/98 - 2004/05
Profile
A gritty opening batsman of the old school who once made 28 in 263 minutes against England A, Trevor Gripper was, by his own admission, a late developer. He impressed the selectors with a fifty for ZCU President's XI against the touring Australians in 1999-2000, and was surprisingly given a Test debut against them the following week, when he hit 60 in the second innings. Gripper is a strong on-side player who is aware that he needs to improve his shotmaking on the off side. After a spell out of the side, he returned for the tour of Bangladesh late in 2001, and ground out a maiden Test century at Chittagong. But bleak trips to Sri Lanka and India followed that and he was dropped again. However, consistent scores for his domestic side Mashonaland, including 234 against Manicaland, earned him a recall and a place on the 2003-04 Australia tour. But his international career hit the buffers when he joined the rebel strike in support of Heath Streak, and although all the players returned to work, Gripper was not among those reselected. While he did play league cricket in England, that he was overlooked was probably more to do with the fact that his father, Ray, a former Rhodesian captain, was identified by the board as a leading opponent and a thorn in their side.
Geoffrey Dean
