Paul Hibbert
Encyclopedia
Paul Anthony Hibbert was an Australian cricket
er who played in one Test
in 1977. He was born in Brunswick, Victoria
.
Hibbert is one of only two men to make a century
in first-class cricket
without hitting a boundary
, a record he shares with Alan Hill. He was the batting coach at Essendon Cricket Club.
He died in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon
in 2008.
He was the club coach of the Preston Druids Cricket Club
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
er who played in one Test
Test cricket
Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
in 1977. He was born in Brunswick, Victoria
Brunswick, Victoria
Brunswick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 6 km north from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moreland...
.
Hibbert is one of only two men to make a century
Century (cricket)
In the sport of cricket, a batsman reaches his century when he scores 100 or more runs in a single innings. The term is also included in "century partnership" which occurs when two batsmen add 100 runs to the team total when they are batting together. A century is regarded as a landmark score for...
in first-class cricket
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
without hitting a boundary
Boundary (cricket)
Boundary has two distinct meanings in the sport of cricket:# the edge or boundary of the playing field, and# a manner of scoring runs.-Edge of the field:...
, a record he shares with Alan Hill. He was the batting coach at Essendon Cricket Club.
He died in the Melbourne suburb of Essendon
Essendon, Victoria
Essendon is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 10 km north-west from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Moonee Valley...
in 2008.
He was the club coach of the Preston Druids Cricket Club