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Sex romps, drugs spiced South African cricket
Sex romps, drugs spiced South African cricket | Cricket News - Yahoo! Cricket
Johannesburg: South Africans shopped for 'eager young Aussie lasses' when Down Under says Gibbs
A NO- HOLDS- BARRED autobiography by South African batsman Herschelle Gibbs has revealed the dark side of Proteas cricket, providing graphic details of sexual orgies, marijuana sessions and a senior coterie dominating the team.
Aptly called ' To The Point' if only for being so direct in recording details of sexual encounters in which he and other players took part, Gibbs has perhaps realised that candour can be explosive, just like his batting in his heydays.
The description of his team's tours Down Under as shopping expeditions for "eager young Aussie lasses" is a case in point. He also relates the experience of a hotel room orgy involving three girls.
"Two beds, two cricketers and three women.
One of them wasn't all that keen, though; she just lay on the bed. Which was fine � there was enough for everyone. The other two girls,
however, more than made a go of it," he writes. Extracts of the book were published by Johannesburg based The Sunday Times.
"I got the ball rolling, but then I noticed that my mate was feeling a little left out. Now he's lying on the other bed, so, big- hearted chap that I am, I say, ' Well, you can't leave my mate all alone there.' And fortunately one of them was only too happy to transfer ship.... They came hunting in packs, and if they liked what they saw, you were in for the ride of your life," he reveals.
The disclosures came on a day when South Africa were involved in a One- Day International against Pakistan in Dubai. The book, which releases on Monday, apart from highlighting the sexual exploits of the batsman who was often in trouble for late night binges and drunken driving, says leading players in smoking pot in the West Indies.
"Some people aren't going to like this chapter, but I've always believed you have to call it like you see it," writes Gibbs in the book, the excerpts of which were published in The Sunday Times . Gibbs recalled his encounter with a girl on her way to a matric dance � a formal dance for high school students. "I spotted one particularly gorgeous girl, obviously dressed to the nines, walking around the hotel lobby.
After a few drinks and a few words, she came upstairs with me to my room and gave me a little dance of another kind. She then left and went back to the dance proper," recalls Gibbs, who has played in three World Cups for South Africa and is contracted to the Proteas until next April.
Gibbs also wrote about how he came across a stripper during one of South Africa's warm- up games on the 1997- 98 Australia tour.
Gibbs and some of his teammates noticed a "pretty girl" and asked her to join them that evening. They started drinking and she mentioned she was a stripper. "Things loosened up a lot more after that. Various items of clothing were removed in an eyebrow- raising kind of way, and one thing invariably led to another." Gibbs also admitted that his "most expensive shag" set him back by 5000 Rand ( about ` 31,750) in a fine for poor performance on the field the next day.
The autobiography of Gibbs, who has been out of the team for quite some time now, is likely to rock the cricket world and could also incur the ire of South African players after he wrote how the Proteas are dominated by a "clique" of senior players.
He said even former coach Mickey Arthur had to bow to them. "The team has been criticised for being run by a group of senior players � captain Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and, more recently, AB de Villiers � and this inner circle splits the team in two and makes any chance of developing true team spirit among the Proteas impossible. "Simply put, without Graeme's backing, Mickey didn't have much influence over the guys. In the end, Graeme was simply too powerful," he writes.
The hard- hitting opener also revealed how the team never regained its spirit after former captain Hansie Cronje's admission to match fixing which resulted in a life ban.
"Things were never the same ... I sympathised with Shaun Pollock � he had a tough time filling Hansie's shoes and gluing the team back together. But the Proteas never had that same togetherness under Polly. He never socialised with the boys too much.
"I think if we're honest with ourselves ... we've got to admit that the Proteas have underachieved in international cricket over the past decade." But despite Cronje's association in match fixing, Gibbs claims: "the cloud that hangs over his legacy, I can tell you that I've never played with anyone who possessed such a die- hard attitude to winning". In the book, Gibbs discusses his failed marriage and the rehabilitation stint that he underwent.
His marriage to Tenielle Povey ended in 2008 after his drunken ways got him into trouble far too often. "As you now know, I've managed to land myself in the kak with alarming regularity right from the start of my cricket career. A stint in rehab for alcohol abuse and a messy divorce would be more than enough controversy for most professional athletes, but, with me, that wasn't the half of it.
"We were physically fighting while I was driving ... I managed to pull some of her hair out. As explosive as my batting can be, it hasn't quite matched the pyrotechnics of my life off the field." There have been detailed descriptions of how some of his teammates flew out waitresses from the infamous Port Elizabeth restaurant The Ranch to join them on tour and the night he spent with two "hotties" with a reputation for making their way through cricketing nations.
Sex romps, drugs spiced South African cricket | Cricket News - Yahoo! Cricket
Johannesburg: South Africans shopped for 'eager young Aussie lasses' when Down Under says Gibbs
A NO- HOLDS- BARRED autobiography by South African batsman Herschelle Gibbs has revealed the dark side of Proteas cricket, providing graphic details of sexual orgies, marijuana sessions and a senior coterie dominating the team.
Aptly called ' To The Point' if only for being so direct in recording details of sexual encounters in which he and other players took part, Gibbs has perhaps realised that candour can be explosive, just like his batting in his heydays.
The description of his team's tours Down Under as shopping expeditions for "eager young Aussie lasses" is a case in point. He also relates the experience of a hotel room orgy involving three girls.
"Two beds, two cricketers and three women.
One of them wasn't all that keen, though; she just lay on the bed. Which was fine � there was enough for everyone. The other two girls,
however, more than made a go of it," he writes. Extracts of the book were published by Johannesburg based The Sunday Times.
"I got the ball rolling, but then I noticed that my mate was feeling a little left out. Now he's lying on the other bed, so, big- hearted chap that I am, I say, ' Well, you can't leave my mate all alone there.' And fortunately one of them was only too happy to transfer ship.... They came hunting in packs, and if they liked what they saw, you were in for the ride of your life," he reveals.
The disclosures came on a day when South Africa were involved in a One- Day International against Pakistan in Dubai. The book, which releases on Monday, apart from highlighting the sexual exploits of the batsman who was often in trouble for late night binges and drunken driving, says leading players in smoking pot in the West Indies.
"Some people aren't going to like this chapter, but I've always believed you have to call it like you see it," writes Gibbs in the book, the excerpts of which were published in The Sunday Times . Gibbs recalled his encounter with a girl on her way to a matric dance � a formal dance for high school students. "I spotted one particularly gorgeous girl, obviously dressed to the nines, walking around the hotel lobby.
After a few drinks and a few words, she came upstairs with me to my room and gave me a little dance of another kind. She then left and went back to the dance proper," recalls Gibbs, who has played in three World Cups for South Africa and is contracted to the Proteas until next April.
Gibbs also wrote about how he came across a stripper during one of South Africa's warm- up games on the 1997- 98 Australia tour.
Gibbs and some of his teammates noticed a "pretty girl" and asked her to join them that evening. They started drinking and she mentioned she was a stripper. "Things loosened up a lot more after that. Various items of clothing were removed in an eyebrow- raising kind of way, and one thing invariably led to another." Gibbs also admitted that his "most expensive shag" set him back by 5000 Rand ( about ` 31,750) in a fine for poor performance on the field the next day.
The autobiography of Gibbs, who has been out of the team for quite some time now, is likely to rock the cricket world and could also incur the ire of South African players after he wrote how the Proteas are dominated by a "clique" of senior players.
He said even former coach Mickey Arthur had to bow to them. "The team has been criticised for being run by a group of senior players � captain Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and, more recently, AB de Villiers � and this inner circle splits the team in two and makes any chance of developing true team spirit among the Proteas impossible. "Simply put, without Graeme's backing, Mickey didn't have much influence over the guys. In the end, Graeme was simply too powerful," he writes.
The hard- hitting opener also revealed how the team never regained its spirit after former captain Hansie Cronje's admission to match fixing which resulted in a life ban.
"Things were never the same ... I sympathised with Shaun Pollock � he had a tough time filling Hansie's shoes and gluing the team back together. But the Proteas never had that same togetherness under Polly. He never socialised with the boys too much.
"I think if we're honest with ourselves ... we've got to admit that the Proteas have underachieved in international cricket over the past decade." But despite Cronje's association in match fixing, Gibbs claims: "the cloud that hangs over his legacy, I can tell you that I've never played with anyone who possessed such a die- hard attitude to winning". In the book, Gibbs discusses his failed marriage and the rehabilitation stint that he underwent.
His marriage to Tenielle Povey ended in 2008 after his drunken ways got him into trouble far too often. "As you now know, I've managed to land myself in the kak with alarming regularity right from the start of my cricket career. A stint in rehab for alcohol abuse and a messy divorce would be more than enough controversy for most professional athletes, but, with me, that wasn't the half of it.
"We were physically fighting while I was driving ... I managed to pull some of her hair out. As explosive as my batting can be, it hasn't quite matched the pyrotechnics of my life off the field." There have been detailed descriptions of how some of his teammates flew out waitresses from the infamous Port Elizabeth restaurant The Ranch to join them on tour and the night he spent with two "hotties" with a reputation for making their way through cricketing nations.
