Gary Brent

Gary Brent

Personal information
Full name	Gary Bazil Brent
Born	(1976-01-13) 13 January 1976 Sinoia, Rhodesia
Height	185 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Batting	Right-handed
Bowling	Right-arm medium-fast
Role	All rounder
Relations	Jonathan Brent (uncle)
International information
National side	Zimbabwe
Test debut (cap 42)	18 November 1999 v Sri Lanka
Last Test	27 December 2001 v Sri Lanka
ODI debut (cap 46)	30 October 1996 v Pakistan
Last ODI	2 February 2008 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1994/95–1998/99	Mashonaland
1999/00–2004/05	Manicaland
2006/07	Southerns
2007/08	Northerns
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 4 70 61 129 Runs scored 35 408 2,066 934 Batting average 5.83 12.00 26.15 14.82 100s/50s 0/0 0/1 2/8 0/3 Top score 25 59* 130 64 Balls bowled 818 3,390 10,157 5,823 Wickets 7 75 186 135 Bowling average 44.85 37.01 25.27 34.09 5 wickets in innings 0 0 7 0 10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0 Best bowling 3/21 4/22 6/46 4/22 Catches/stumpings 1/– 20/– 30/– 33/–
Source: CricketArchive (subscription required), 27 September 2008

Gary Bazil Brent (born 13 January 1976) is a former Zimbabwean cricketer.

Brent was an inswinging bowler, with a good slow-arm bowling technique. Having missed the cut for the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he made the national squad for the 2003/04 tour in Australia. Brent was one of the fifteen "rebel" players who were dismissed in 2004 due to a dispute with the Zimbabwean Cricket Board.

Brent was a surprise call-up during the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, replacing the injured Terrence Duffin. He played just the one match, but proved useful, taking 1/28 from seven overs, and adding ten with the bat as part of the Zimbabwean total of 130.

In the first ODI against South Africa, Brent equaled his top score with a defiant 59 after his team was reduced to 72–7. He won the man of the match award, after a good bowling performance as well.

Brent was also selected for the tour to Bangladesh, starting in late November 2007.

Having spent two seasons as a cricket professional at Rugby School in Warwickshire, Brent returned to his native Zimbabwe in September 2010 to take up a coaching job for one of the country's regional youth sides.

Brent is now coaching cricket at the York Cricket Academy in York. In March 2022, he was named head coach of the Zimbabwe women's team.

External links

• Gary Brent at ESPNcricinfo