Trevor Gripper

Trevor Gripper

Cricket information
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right arm off-break
International information
National side	Zimbabwe
Test debut (cap 41)	14 October 1999 v Australia
Last Test	26 February 2004 v Bangladesh
ODI debut (cap 68)	28 October 2001 v Pakistan
Last ODI	26 November 2003 v West Indies
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 20 8 62 37 Runs scored 809 80 3515 921 Batting average 21.86 10.00 33.79 28.78 100s/50s 1/5 0/0 5/26 1/5 Top score 112 26 234 103 Balls bowled 793 120 4430 718 Wickets 6 2 78 15 Bowling average 84.83 38.00 31.87 39.93 5 wickets in innings 0 0 2 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 2/91 2/28 5/40 3/34 Catches/stumpings 14/– 4/– 56/– 18/–
Source: Cricinfo, 14 May 2005

Trevor Raymond Gripper (born 28 December 1975) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He was born in 1975 in Salisbury (now Harare).

Gripper was an 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.

Although only taking six wickets in his Test career, he was notable as the bowler who dismissed Matthew Hayden for 380 runs (second highest runs scored in a Test match) in the first Test between Australia and Zimbabwe at Perth in October 2003.

He 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, this 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.