Gerard Brophy
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| Gerard Brophy | ||||
 South Africa |
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Gerard Louis Brophy | |||
| Born | 26 November 1975 | |||
| Welkom, South Africa | ||||
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) | |||
| Role | Wicket-keeper | |||
| Batting style | Right-hand | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 2006–present | Yorkshire (squad no. 20) | |||
| 2002–2005 | Northamptonshire | |||
| 1999–2001 | Free State | |||
| 1998–1999 | Gauteng | |||
| 1996–1997 | Transvaal B | |||
| First-class debut | 31 October 1996: Transvaal B v Eastern Province B | |||
| Last First-class | 9 August 2007: Yorkshire v Lancashire | |||
| List-A debut | 5 December 1997: Gauteng v Easterns | |||
| Last List-A | 8 August 2007: Yorkshire v Middlesex | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| FC | LA | T20 | ||
| Matches | 72 | 72 | 23 | |
| Runs scored | 3216 | 1124 | 362 | |
| Batting average | 32.16 | 23.91 | 25.85 | |
| 100s/50s | 6/15 | 0/5 | 0/1 | |
| Top score | 185 | 57* | 57 | |
| Balls bowled | 6 | – | – | |
| Wickets | – | – | – | |
| Bowling average | – | – | – | |
| 5 wickets in innings | – | – | – | |
| 10 wickets in match | – | – | – | |
| Best bowling | – | – | – | |
| Catches/stumpings | 178/13 | 60/14 | 8/1 | |
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As of 14 August 2007 |
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Gerard Louis Brophy (born 26 November 1975) is a first class cricketer contracted to Yorkshire County Cricket Club for the 2007 season. He has also played for Ireland, Free State, Gauteng, Northamptonshire and Transvaal in a well travelled career.
He was born in Welkom, Orange Free State and educated at Christian Brothers College, Boksburg, 'Scuba' made his first class debut in the 1996/97 South African season. Standing relatively tall for a keeper at five feet eleven inches, he has taken 167 first class catches and completed 11 stumpings. A right hand batsman, he has scored 3030 runs at 32.58 with six hundreds and a best of 185. He's played in 69 list A one day games, scoring 1030 runs at 22.88 with a top score of 57* and 15 Twenty20 games, making 211 runs at 26.37 with a best of 57.
Although born in South Africa he holds a British passport and so is not considered an overseas player in the English first class game. He represented East Transvaal in that sport in 1991. He struggled with the bat in his first season with Yorkshire in 2006 and faces a fight for a first team place with Simon Guy and young Greg Wood.
He revealed on Sky Sports Twenty20 coverage that his favourite music is Razorlight, food is lamb chops, film is Meet the Fockers and the person he'd most like to meet is Bill Gates.
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