Trevor Gripper

Trevor Gripper

Personal information
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Right arm off-break
Career statistics
Competition Tests ODIs Matches 20 8 Runs scored 809 80 Batting average 21.86 10.00 100s/50s 1/5 0/0 Top score 112 26 Balls bowled 132.1 20 Wickets 6 2 Bowling average 84.83 38.00 5 wickets in innings 0 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a Best bowling 2/91 2/28 Catches/stumpings 14/0 4/0
Source: Cricinfo, 14 May 2005

Trevor Raymond Gripper is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He was born on December 28, 1975 in Salisbury - now Harare.

Gripper is a somewhat solid opening batsman, who once spent four hours 23 minutes inching his way to 28 in a match against England A. However, his off-spin bowling has also proved useful, and in first-class cricket he may fairly be considered an all-rounder, with his batting average above 33 and his bowling average below 32.

Gripper made his first-class debut for a Matabeleland Invitation XI during Worcestershire's 1996/97 tour of Zimbabwe, by scoring 45. However, he did not play another match at that level until the aforementioned game against England A in February 1999.

Gripper made his Test match debut in October 1999 against Australia at Harare; the selectors' decision was somewhat surprising since at the time Gripper had still not recorded a first-class century. He made 60 in the second innings. His maiden Test hundred came against Bangladesh in 2001, as Zimbabwe piled up 542/7 declared.

He has played domestic cricket for Matabeleland, Manicaland and Mashonaland, and it was for the latter that he made his highest first-class score - 234 against Manicaland, which performance brought him a recall to the Zimbabwe team for the 2003/04 tour of Australia.

He also played two seasons for Cranleigh Cricket Club in Surrey (1999 and 2004) totalling over 1,400 1st XI runs and 68 wickets.