| Personal information | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark Raymond Gillespie | |||
| Born | 17 October 1979 Wanganui, New Zealand |
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| Batting style | Right-handed batsman | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm fast-medium | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | New Zealand | |||
| Test debut (cap 235) | 16 November 2007 v South Africa | |||
| Last Test | 11 December 2008 v West Indies | |||
| ODI debut (cap 145) | 28 December 2006 v Sri Lanka | |||
| Last ODI | 13 January 2009 v West Indies | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1999–present | Wellington | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Test | ODI | FC | List A |
| Matches | 3 | 32 | 52 | 89 |
| Runs scored | 25 | 93 | 915 | 373 |
| Batting average | 6.25 | 15.50 | 16.63 | 10.97 |
| 100s/50s | 0/0 | 0/0 | 0/3 | 0/0 |
| Top score | 16* | 28 | 81* | 28 |
| Balls bowled | 516 | 1,521 | 9,759 | 4,322 |
| Wickets | 11 | 37 | 212 | 125 |
| Bowling average | 34.54 | 37.00 | 24.38 | 29.58 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | 5/136 | 4/58 | 6/42 | 5/35 |
| Catches/stumpings | 0/– | 6/– | 8/– | 16/– |
| Source: CricketArchive, 24 January 2009 | ||||
Mark Raymond Gillespie (born 17 October 1979 in Wanganui) is a member of the New Zealand cricket team. He came to the selectors attention in the 2005-06 season with 43 wickets at 23.16 for Wellington. He then played for New Zealand A in the Top-End series of 2006 before being included in New Zealand's squad of 14 for the Champions Trophy.
Gillespie's nickname is the Tawa Terror as he plays for the Tawa Cricket Club.
Gillespie has the second best bowling figures in men's Twenty20 Internationals with 4/7, during New Zealand's 9 wicket win over Kenya in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20.[1]
On his Test Match debut, he took five wickets in the first innings against South Africa at Centurion in 2007.[2]
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