Trevor Gripper
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 Zimbabwe (ZIM) |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman (RHB) | |
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| Bowling type | Right arm off-break | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 20 | 8 |
| Runs scored | 809 | 80 |
| Batting average | 21.86 | 10.00 |
| 100s/50s | 1/5 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 112 | 26 |
| Overs bowled | 132.1 | 20 |
| Wickets | 6 | 2 |
| Bowling average | 84.83 | 38.00 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | 2/91 | 2/28 |
| Catches/stumpings | 14/0 | 4/0 |
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As of 14 May 2005 |
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Trevor Raymond Gripper is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He was born on December 28, 1975 in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).
Gripper is a somewhat stolid opening batsman, who once spent four hours 23 minutes inching his way to 28 in a match against England A. However, his off-spin bowling has also proved useful, and in first-class cricket he may fairly be considered an all-rounder, with his batting average above 33 and his bowling average below 32.
Gripper made his first-class debut for a Matabeleland Invitation XI during Worcestershire's 1996/97 tour of Zimbabwe, scoring 45 in the number 1 position before being caught by Graeme Hick off the bowling of Gavin Haynes. However, he did not play another match at that level until the aforementioned game against England A in February 1999.
Gripper made his Test match debut in October 1999 against Australia at Harare; the selectors' decision was somewhat surprising since at the time Gripper had still not recorded a first-class century. He made 60 in the second innings. His maiden Test hundred came against Bangladesh in 2001, as Zimbabwe piled up 542/7 declared.
He has played domestic cricket for both Matabeleland and Mashonaland, and it was for the latter that he made his highest first-class score - 234 against Manicaland, which performance brought him a recall to the Zimbabwe team for the 2003/04 tour of Australia.
