Paul Gibb - From Yorkshire Amateur to Essex Professional

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Paul Gibb - From Yorkshire Amateur to Essex Professional

In this feature Martin tells the unusual story of Paul Gibb, a wicketkeeper batsman for England, Essex and Yorkshire who later became a First Class umpire

 

[NotMcKenzie]

And owner of, as far as I can tell, the earliest sweatband in cricket:

 

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Gibb was chosen to tour South Africa in 1938–39 as Ames' deputy, although he played in all five Tests as a batsman

 

[Burgey]

Ok

 

[Aritro]

Gibb was chosen to tour South Africa in 1938–39 as Ames' deputy, although he played in all five Tests as a batsman
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Needed to add some protein to his diet

 

[Aritro]

Ok, just seen this:

Outside the game Gibb ‘enjoyed’, despite the slim physique, a considerable reputation as a trencherman. Stories abound of his eating huge amounts of food, not always on the basis of wagers. On one occasion he was challenged to eat twenty slabs of ice cream by Joe Hardstaff, and having achieved that consumed two more, just because he could. Fruit salads seem to figure in several such stories, and on another occasion huge quantities of strawberries, even though, presumably believing it to be cream, Gibb had first smothered them in mayonnaise

What a very strange past-time.