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Full name | Eric Kenneth Gillott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Waiuku, Auckland, New Zealand | 15 April 1951|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Batting | Right-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bowling | Slow left-arm orthodox | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Bowler | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Years | Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1971/72–1978/79 | Northern Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FC debut | 30 December 1971 Northern Districts v Central Districts | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last FC | 22 January 1979 Northern Districts v Otago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
LA debut | 5 December 1971 Northern Districts v Auckland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Last LA | 2 December 1973 Northern Districts v Auckland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,16 May 2011 |
Eric Kenneth Gillott (born 15 April 1951) is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played first-class and List A cricket for Northern Districts between 1971/72 and 1978/79. [1] He also toured England in 1973 as part of the New Zealand team that played three Tests,though he did not feature in the Tests.
Gillott was born at Waiuku,Auckland. He was a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler and a right-handed tail-end batsman. He made his first-class and List A debuts for Northern Districts in the 1971/72 season and in his second match he took six Otago wickets for 79 runs in 43 overs in the match at Dunedin. [2] The 29 wickets he took in six matches in that New Zealand cricket season were beaten only by the 31 taken by another slow left-arm bowler,the Test player Hedley Howarth. [3] He followed this with 23 wickets in the 1972/73 season,with a further six-wicket haul,six for 105,in the match against Wellington at the Basin Reserve. [4]
This led to his call-up for the 1973 New Zealand tour of England,but he was not a success and took only 10 first-class wickets on the tour. Wisden Cricketers' Almanack's report of the tour said of him:"Gillott showed he had yet to develop all the skills of a top-class left-hander." [5] It noted also that there were few pitches suited to spin bowling,which also had not helped the senior left-arm spinner,Howarth,who had been successful on the 1969 tour. Gillott was no more successful on his return to New Zealand for the 1973/74 season,and he dropped out of the Northern Districts side at the end of the season.
In 1976,Gillott spent a cricket season in England playing non-first-class Minor Counties cricket for Buckinghamshire,taking 41 wickets in the season,the most by any player in the team. [6] He returned to New Zealand for a further single season of first-class cricket for Northern Districts in 1978/79,but with little success,and left top-class cricket entirely after that.
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