Mark Raymond Gillespie (born 17 October 1979) is a former New Zealand

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...

er. He came to the selectors attention in the 2005–06 season with 43 wickets at 23.16 for

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. He then played for New Zealand A in the Top-End series of 2006 before being included in New Zealand's squad of 14 for the Champions Trophy.

International career

Gillespie has taken

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s with 4/7 during New Zealand's 9 wicket win over Kenya in the

2007 ICC World Twenty20 The 2007 ICC World Twenty20 was the inaugural Twenty20 International cricket world championship, contested in South Africa from 11 to 24 September 2007. Twelve teams took part in the thirteen-day tournament—the ten Test-playing nations and the ...

. On his Test Match debut, he took five wickets in the first innings against South Africa at

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in 2007.

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