Glenn Trimble

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Glenn Trimble Australia (Aus)

Batting style	Right-handed batsman (RHB)
Bowling type	Right-arm medium (RM)
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	0	2
Runs scored	-	4
Batting average	-	4
100s/50s	-	0/0
Top score	-	4
Overs bowled	-	4
Wickets	-	0
Bowling average	-	-
5 wickets in innings	-	0
10 wickets in match	-	N/A
Best bowling	-	0/32
Catches/stumpings	-	1/0
As of 18 August 2006 Source: Cricinfo.com

Glenn Samuel Trimble (born January 1, 1963) is a former Queensland and Australian cricketer born in Brisbane, Queensland. Trimble played in 57 Sheffield Shield and other first-class matches for Queensland between 1982-83 and 1989-90 and two One-day International World Series Cup matches in Perth and Adelaide against New Zealand in 1985-86 under Allan Border ^[1].

The son of former Queensland cricket captain and opening batsman Sam Trimble who played 144 matches, Glenn Trimble first gained attention in 1982/83 as a middle-order batsman, scoring 116 for the Australian Under-19 cricket team against Pakistan and then scoring 135 for Queensland Colts against New South Wales. A batsman who preferred to play straight, and a part-time medium pace bowler, Trimble was a regular member of the Queensland side in the mid 1980s, and gained International selection in the 1985/86 season in the one-day team.

Trimble's ODI scorecard shows that he temporarily replaced fellow Queenslander Greg Ritchie. In the Perth match at the WACA Ground he bowled 4 overs conceding an expensive 32 runs without taking a wicket. He then batted at number 8 without making a run after coming to the crease just before Australia won the match by 3 wickets. In the Adelaide he batted at number four, making only four runs; he hit a boundary off the first delivery before being caught off the bowling of Richard Hadlee on the following ball. He was not used for bowling after his display in Perth. New Zealand won the match by a large margin of 206 runs after an insipid batting display by the home side who were bowled out for 70 runs.

He won an Esso Scholarship in 1986, playing with the Essex Second XI in England, and retired in 1990 at the age of 27. In 57 first class matches, he took 30 wickets at an average of 29.33 with a best of 5 for 50, and scored 2881 runs at an average of 33.11 with four centuries. In the 1987-88 season he combined for a Queensland record fifth-wicket stand of 231 with Allan Border ^[2]

Trimble was a noted big hitter at first grade level for South Brisbane. He is reputed to have hit a six in a first grade Final at the Gabba which went over the old Clem Jones Stand and landed in a car park on the southern side of Stanley Street.