Full Name

Ottis Delroy Gibson

Born

March 16, 1969, Sion Hill, St Peter, Barbados

Age

55y 12d

Batting Style

Right hand Bat

Bowling Style

Right arm Fast

Playing Role

Allrounder

Height

6ft 2in

Education

Ellerslie Secondary School, Barbados

RELATIONS

(cousin)

Other

Coach

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 enjoy one of his most successful seasons, and his career-best 155 in the final match of the summer helped keep his team in the top flight. In 2007 he became the 79th player to take all ten wickets in an innings when he skittled Hampshire for 115 to take 10 for 47 in 17.3 overs. He finished the season with a record number of wickets in any season for Durham and was instrumental in their two trophies and was unsurprisingly named Most Valuable Player and Player of the Year at the PCA Awards that September. He also expressed an interest in moving into coaching and was named as England's bowling coach for the tour of Sri Lanka that autumn. He spent more than two years with England before giving up the job to become the West Indies coach in January 2010.
Martin Williamson

Ottis Gibson Career Stats

Batting & Fielding

FormatMatInnsNORunsHSAveBFSR100s50s4s6sCtSt
Tests240933723.2517453.440014000
ODIs151111415214.10138102.170110330
FC17726736560415524.25--229--680
List A212159382548102*21.05--15--590
T20s251621662211.85133124.810081070

Bowling

FormatMatInnsBallsRunsWktsBBIBBMAveEconSR4w5w10w
Tests2447227532/812/13291.663.49157.3000
ODIs1515739621345/405/4018.265.0421.7220
FC177-324411831965910/47-27.793.3849.2-288
List A212-980775333105/195/1924.304.6031.61150
T20s2525475617182/202/2034.277.7926.3000
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Recent Matches of Ottis Gibson

MatchBatBowlDateGroundFormat
Durham vs Kent403/60 & 2/4219-Sep-2007CanterburyFC
Durham vs Glamorgan22/4815-Sep-2007Chester-le-StreetList A
Durham vs Sussex04/78 & 3/6011-Sep-2007Chester-le-StreetFC
Durham vs Lancashire8 & 338/68 & 1/5906-Sep-2007BlackpoolFC
Durham vs Derbyshire--3/4604-Sep-2007ChesterfieldList A

Photos of Ottis Gibson

Ottis Gibson, Yorkshire's head coach
Ottis Gibson enjoyed a light moment with his players
Ottis Gibson and Darren Gough flank Steve Patterson, Yorkshire's captain, at the club's media day
Faf du Plessis and Ottis Gibson are likely to face scrutiny after South Africa's poor World Cup
Faf du Plessis and Ottis Gibson at training on a humid day
Coach Ottis Gibson talks to Kagiso Rabada