Tony MacGibbon

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Tony MacGibbon New Zealand (NZ)
Batting style	Right-hand bat
Bowling type	Right-arm fast-medium
	Tests	First-class
Matches	26	124
Runs scored	814	3699
Batting average	19.85	19.88
100s/50s	0/3	0/14
Top score	66	94
Balls bowled	5659	24069
Wickets	70	356
Bowling average	30.85	26.12
5 wickets in innings	1	8
10 wickets in match	0	0
Best bowling	5/64	7/56
Catches/stumpings	13/-	81/-
Test debut: 17 March 1951 Last Test: 21 August 1958 Source: Cricinfo

Anthony Roy MacGibbon, born at Christchurch, New Zealand on 28 August 1924, is a cricketer who played 26 Tests for New Zealand.

MacGibbon was a useful lower-order right-hand batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler who led the attack for his country for most of the 1950s. Tall and able to move the ball off the seam, MacGibbon was known as a wholehearted cricketer in what was, for most of his career, one of the weakest teams in international cricket.

MacGibbon played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1947-48, and was in the trial match for the 1949 New Zealand tour to England, though he was not selected. He made his Test debut against the 1950-51 England touring team but achieved little in the two matches, making 32 runs in four innings and failing to take a wicket. He was not much more successful in just one match against the touring South African cricket team two years later, though he did take his first Test wicket: Roy McLean.

But when New Zealand visited South Africa the following year he cut down the length of his run-up and was the team's most successful bowler, taking 22 wickets at the respectable average of under 21 runs per wicket. A second tour, to Pakistan and India in 1955-56, brought him less success as a bowler, but he played in all eight Tests and hit two 50s. Back home in New Zealand later that season, he was a member of the team that recorded New Zealand's first-ever Test victory against the West Indies at Auckland.

MacGibbon's final Tests were played on the 1958 tour to England, when he was one of the few New Zealand players to come out of a disastrous tour in a wet summer with an enhanced reputation. In the first Test, he took five wickets in an innings for the only time in his international career: his five for 64 dismissed England for 221 in their first innings and he took three more wickets in the second innings, though England won the match comfortably enough. His 66 in the fourth Test at Old Trafford was not just the highest score of his own Test career, it was also New Zealand's highest of the series. On the tour as a whole, he scored 670 runs and took 73 wickets.

MacGibbon retired from Test cricket after this tour, and stayed in the UK to study civil engineering at Durham University. He played in New Zealand domestic cricket until 1961-62.