Herbert Gibbons

{{short description|English cricketer}}

{{for|the American journalist|Herbert Adams Gibbons}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2016}}

{{Use British English|date=February 2016}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Herbert Gibbons

| image =

| country = England

| fullname = Herbert Gladstone Coe Gibbons

| nickname =

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1905|3|12|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Tilehurst, Berkshire, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1963|1|13|1905|3|12|df=yes}}

| death_place = Southampton, Hampshire, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Leg break googly

| role =

| club1 = Hampshire

| year1 = {{nowrap|1925–1928}}

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 7

| runs1 = 70

| bat avg1 = 10.00

| 100s/50s1 = –/–

| top score1 = 27

| deliveries1 = 96

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = –

| tenfor1 = –

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = 1/–

| date = 20 January

| year = 2010

| source = http://www.cricinfo.com/ci/content/player/13353.html Cricinfo

}}

Herbert Gladstone Coe Gibbons (12 March 1905 – 13 January 1963) was an English first-class cricketer.

Gibbons was born at Tilehurst in March 1905. He made his debut in first-class cricket for Hampshire against Warwickshire at Edgbaston in the 1925 County Championship. He played irregularly for Hampshire until 1928, making a further six appearances.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6616/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches Played by Herbert Gibbons|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=30 June 2023|url-access=subscription}} He scored 70 runs in his seven matches with a highest score of 27,{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6616/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Herbert Gibbons|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=30 June 2023|url-access=subscription}} while with his leg break googly bowling he went wicketless, having bowled a total of sixteen overs.{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/6/6616/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling For Each Team by Herbert Gibbons|publisher=CricketArchive|accessdate=30 June 2023|url-access=subscription}} Gibbons had been a detective constable with the Southampton City Police since the early 1930s,{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003142/19330318/259/0010|title=Totton Man Sentenced at Southampton|work=Hampshire Advertiser|location=Southampton|page=10|date=18 March 1933|access-date=30 June 2023|url-access=subscription|via=British Newspaper Archive}} with him continuing to serve as a police officer in the Second World War, during which he partook in exhibition matches for the police.{{cite web|url=https://hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com/2018/01/11/a-z-g2/|title=A to Z (G2)|website=www.hampshirecrickethistory.wordpress.com|accessdate=30 June 2023}} Gibbons died at Southampton in January 1963.