Gerard Louis Brophy (born 26 November 1975,

Welkom Welkom () is the second-largest city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about northeast of Bloemfontein which is the provincial capital. Welkom is also known as Circle City, City Within A Garden, Mvela and Matjhabeng. The cit ...

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, South Africa) is a

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er, latterly contracted to

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. He has also played for

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, Free State,

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and

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in a well travelled career. He was educated at Christian Brothers College,

Boksburg Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa. Gold was discovered in Boksburg in 1887. Boksburg was named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, W. Eduard Bok. The Main Reef Road linked Boksburg ...

, and made his first-class debut in the 1996/97 South African season. Standing relatively tall for a keeper at five feet eleven inches, he has taken 301 first-class catches and completed 22 stumpings. A right hand batsman, he has scored 5,520 runs at 32.09 with eight hundreds and a best of 185. He has played in 123

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matches, scoring 2,069 runs at 25.54 with a top score of 93* and 60

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games, making 776 runs at 19.40 with a best of 57*. Although born in South Africa, he holds a British passport, and so is not considered an overseas player in the English first class game. He represented East Transvaal in that sport in 1991. He struggled with the bat in his first season with Yorkshire in 2006, and faced a fight for a first team place with Simon Guy and Greg Wood. However, he prevailed, although Brophy latterly shared keeping duties for Yorkshire with

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. In August 2012, Yorkshire released Brophy from the remainder of his playing contract, and signed

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on loan from

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, to act as wicketkeeping cover for Bairstow in the

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. Brophy, who had been at Yorkshire since 2006, was informed that his contract would not be renewed for 2013, and was free to pursue other opportunities.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brophy, Gerard 1975 births Living people Sportspeople from Welkom South African cricketers Free State cricketers Yorkshire cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers Ireland cricketers