Glendon Gibbs

Glendon Lionel Gibbs (December 27, 1925, Georgetown, British Guiana (now Georgetown, Guyana) – February 21, 1979, Georgetown, Guyana) was a West Indian cricketer who played in one Test in 1955.

Glendon Gibbs
Cricket information
BattingLeft-hand bat
BowlingSlow left-arm orthodox
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 85)26 March 1955 v Australia
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1949/50-1962/63Guyana
Career statistics
Competition Tests First-class
Matches 1 28
Runs scored 12 1,730
Batting average 6.00 36.80
100s/50s 0/0 5/6
Top score 12 216
Balls bowled 24 unknown
Wickets 0 23
Bowling average - 53.47
5 wickets in innings 0 1
10 wickets in match 0 0
Best bowling -/- 6/80
Catches/stumpings 1/0 15/0
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Glendon Gibbs was a left-handed opening batsman and an occasional slow left-arm bowler who played regularly in West Indies cricket for British Guiana from 1949-50 to 1962-63. In 1951, playing against Barbados at Bourda cricket ground, Georgetown, he scored 216 and put on 390 for the first wicket with Leslie Wight, then a West Indies record.[1]

Gibbs' single Test match was the first game in the 1954-55 series at home to the Australians at Kingston, Jamaica. He scored 12 and 0 and was dropped for the next match. In a period when West Indies sometimes struggled to find reliable openers, he was perhaps unlucky not to receive further chances.

After he retired from playing, he became an administrator, and was secretary of the Guyana Cricket Board of Control at the time of his death.

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