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Ottis Gibson
West Indies | Allrounder
FULL NAME
Ottis Delroy Gibson
BORN AGE
March 16, 1969, Sion Hill, St Peter, Barbados 55y 18d
EDUCATION RELATIONS
Ellerslie Secondary School, Barbados DJS Dottin (cousin)
OTHER
Coach
TEAMS
Barbados Border
Gauteng Glamorgan
Staffordshire
A bowler capable of genuine pace, the athletic Ottis Gibson was also an intelligent bowler with the old ball for West Indies.
But he became seen, possibly unfairly, as a one-day specialist - his hard-hitting late middle-order batting was particularly
effective in the closing overs of the innings. He toured England in 1995, playing in the Lord's Test, and won a second cap
when drafted into the West Indies side as emergency cover during their ill-fated tour of South Africa in 1998-99. His nomadic
career took him to Glamorgan, Staffordshire, and three South African provincial sides. Frustrated by niggling injuries, he
took up coaching and found work with the ECB before returning to the game with Leicestershire in 2004. He added one final
side to his CV when he moved to Durham in 2006 to enjoyView one more
of his most successful seasons, and his career-best 155 in the
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