Glendon Gibbs

Infobox Historic Cricketer


nationality = West Indian
country = West Indies
country abbrev = WI
name = Glendon Gibbs
picture = Cricket_no_pic.pngbatting style = Left-hand bat
bowling style = Slow left-arm orthodox
tests = 1
test runs = 12
test top score = 12
test bat avg = 6.00
test 100s/50s = 0/0
test catches/stumpings = 1/0
test balls = 24
test wickets = 0
test best bowling = -/-
test bowl avg = -
test 5s = 0
test 10s = 0
FCs = 28
FC runs = 1,730
FC top score = 216
FC bat avg = 36.80
FC 100s/50s = 5/6
FC catches/stumpings = 15/0
FC balls = unknown
FC wickets = 23
FC best bowling = 6/80
FC bowl avg = 53.47
FC 5s = 1
FC 10s = 0
debut date =26 March
debut year = 1955
last date =26 March
last year = 1955
source = http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/51881.html

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 was a left-handed opening batsman and an occasional slow left-arm bowler who played regularly in West Indies cricket for British Guiana across the 1950s. 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.

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.