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Gary Gilmour

Gary John Gilmour (26 June 1951 – 10 June 2014) was an Australian cricketer who played in 15 test matches and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1973 and 1977. He was a part of the Australian squad that finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup.

Gilmour showed early promise as a schoolboy. He was selected to play club cricket for Newcastle as a teenager and, aged 16, he played for Northern New South Wales against New Zealand, and was picked in the Australian Schoolboys team to tour the West Indies. Gilmour made his first-class debut in 1971. By the 1972–73 season, he started to be talked about as an international prospect. A breakout 1973–74 season saw him picked in the Australian side for the first test. On debut, he scored 52 not out off 58 balls and took 4–75. This was followed by a 7 wicket haul in the third test at Auckland, to set up a series-tying victory. He also won man of the match award for the first ODI.

A good domestic summer in 1974–75 earned him selection on the 1975 tour of England. In the semi-final of the 1975 World Cup against England at Headingley, Gilmour finished 6 for 14, and Australia bowled out the opposition for 93. It was the first time that a bowler had taken 6 wickets in an ODI, and remained the best ODI bowling performance until 1983. Gilmour's best season, however, was in 1975–76. The remainder of his career was plagued by injury. After his omission from the 1977 Australian tour of England, he played World Series Cricket for the 1977-78 and 1978-79 summers. He toured the West Indies in 1978 with the Australian World Series team but, following the end of World Series Cricket, Gilmour only played two more first-class games for New South Wales although he continued to play club cricket. A heel injury, however, brought an early end to his 1980–81 season and he retired soon after. In 2009, he was appointed manager of the Newcastle representative cricket team.

At the peak of his career, Gilmour combined "talented hitting" with a "penetrative" left-arm swing bowling and slip catching. He earned comparisons to the Australian all-rounder Alan Davidson. He was called "Newcastle's greatest all-rounder and arguably its greatest cricketer". Provided by Wikipedia