Former Australia bowler returns home doused in good wishes for his successes as a coach and his progressive outlook
On 4 October, Jason Gillespie planted a tweet – a memoji and the words “England – it’s been a pleasure”. After three years coaching at Sussex, a spell with Kent and five years with Yorkshire, he was on his way home to Adelaide. There he takes up a new
Job with the West End Redbacks, South Australia’s Sheffield Shield team, alongside his existing coaching responsibilities with the Adelaide Strikers in the Big Bash.
With his standalone mullet and long elastic limbs, Gillespie was an iconic figure in Australia’s great team of the late 90s and early 2000s. But for all his success against
England – those 65 Test wickets at 29, his seven wickets at Headingley in 1997, and his name painted on the Lord’s honours board in 2001 – that fifth wicket sliding into the hands of Mark Waugh at second slip to make Waugh the world Test catching record-breaker – his biggest impact on English
Cricket has been post-retirement.