Chris Gilbert (cricketer)

Chris Gilbert

Personal information
Full name	Christopher Robert Gilbert
Born	16 April 1984 Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England
Nickname	Gilly, The Difference
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting style	Right-handed
Bowling style	Right-arm fast-medium
Role	All-rounder
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2006–2007	Yorkshire (squad no. 18)
2002	Yorkshire Cricket Board
First-class debut	16 May 2007 Yorkshire v Loughborough UCCE
Last First-class	16 May 2007 Yorkshire v Loughborough UCCE
List A debut	29 August 2002 Yorkshire Cricket Board v Northamptonshire
Last List A	31 July 2007 Yorkshire v Sri Lanka A
Career statistics
Competition FC LA T20 Matches 1 6 13 Runs scored 64 68 107 Batting average 64.00 13.60 15.28 100s/50s 0/1 –/– –/– Top score 64 37 36* Balls bowled 18 220 – Wickets – 8 – Bowling average – 29.00 – 5 wickets in innings – – – 10 wickets in match – n/a n/a Best bowling – 3/33 –/– Catches/stumpings 1/– 3/– 7/–
Source: cricketarchive.com, 22 August 2007

Christopher Robert "Chris" Gilbert (born 16 April 1984,^[1] Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England) is an English first-class cricketer, who represented England at various age levels. A talented all round sportsman, he has also played hockey for England under 18s. He played cricket for Yorkshire County Cricket Club at first-class level in 2007.^[1] An all rounder, he bowls right arm medium pace and is a right-handed batsman.

Gilbert attended Scarborough College. He made his Yorkshire one day debut against Leicestershire on 16 June 2006. Yorkshire lost the game, but Gilbert claimed 3 wickets for 33. He also played Twenty/20 cricket for Yorkshire in 2006, and made his first-class debut against Loughborough UCCE in May 2007. He scored 64 runs in his only innings, and took 0 for 11 with his bowling, plus one catch. He was released by Yorkshire at the end of that season.^[1]

In 2008, he signed for Scarborough C.C., in Perth, Australia.

In the 2014/15 season, he joined the illustrious Swan Athletic Caversham Cricket Club, who play in the top flight of the WASTCA competition. Gilbert was appointed the captaincy of the cricket club in the 2015/16 season.

References

1. Warner, David (2011). The Yorkshire County Cricket Club: 2011 Yearbook (113th ed.). Ilkley, Yorkshire: Great Northern Books. p. 369. ISBN 978-1-905080-85-4.

External links

• Biography at Cricinfo