Jason Gillespie

Jason Neil Gillespie is an Australian cricketer who formerly represented Australia at international level, in both Tests and One Day Internationals, and South Australia, Yorkshire and Glamorgan at firstclass level. His primary role is as a rightarm fast bowler, but he is also a competent lowerorder batsman with a Test double century, an unbeaten 201. He was an AIS Australian Cricket Academy scholarship holder in 1995. He made his Test debut against the West Indies at Sydney in 1996 and his One Day International debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in the Singer World Series in 1996. OnFebruary 2008, Gillespie announced his retirement from firstclass cricket in Australia and then played for a period in the unauthorised Indian Cricket League for the Ahmedabad Rockets. At the end of the 2008 English domestic season he retired from all firstclass cricket, and is currently the first team coach of Yorkshire County Cricket Club.

Jason Gillespie is a descendant on his fathers side of the Kamilaroi people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged Aboriginal person to become a Test cricketer. His mother has Greek heritage. He attended Cabra Dominican College in Adelaide, South Australia. Jason married Anna in 2003. The couple havechildren, Jackson , Brandon Kingston and a daughter, Delaney, born November 2012 in Yorkshire. Gillespie has another daughter, Sapphire from a previous relationship.

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