Glendon Lionel Gibbs (27 December 1925 – 21 February 1979) was a

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er who played in one

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. Glendon Gibbs was a left-handed opening batsman and an occasional slow left-arm bowler who played regularly in West Indies cricket for

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from 1949–50 to 1962–63. In 1951, playing against

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cricket ground, Georgetown, he scored 216 and put on 390 for the first wicket with

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, then a West Indies record. Gibbs' single Test match was the first game in the 1954–55 series at home to the

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. He scored 12 and 0 and was dropped for the next match. In a period when West Indies sometimes struggled to find reliable openers, he was perhaps unlucky not to receive further chances. After Gibbs retired from playing, he became an administrator, and was secretary of the

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at the time of his death.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gibbs, Glendon 1925 births 1979 deaths West Indies Test cricketers Guyanese cricket administrators Guyanese cricketers Guyana cricketers Cricketers from Georgetown, Guyana