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Birth of the man who dropped the World Cup, mate. Herschelle Gibbs will always be remembered for that faux pas at Headingley in 1999, and for his involvement in the match-fixing scandal, but since returning from a ban for that offence, he was for a while one of the best openers in one-day cricket. He starred in the record chase in Johannesburg in 2006, scoring 175 off 111 as South Africa beat Australia by a wicket. In the 2007 World Cup he smashed six sixes in an over against Netherlands, becoming the first batter to do so in ODIs. But problems of indiscipline and alcohol dogged his career, and the last straw came when in 2010 he published a tell-all book which described tales of sexual debauchery on tour and allegations that the team was run by a clique of senior players. The board terminated his central contract a month later, after which he made his living for a while as a gun-for-hire T20 franchise player.
