Number crunching with South Africa
In most other sports, jersey numbers are useful for identifying players, but Herschelle Gibbs sporting '09' and Mark Boucher '9' on their backs, has GS Vivek in the Indian Express intrigued.
Judhajit
25-Feb-2013
In most other sports, jersey numbers are useful for identifying players, but Herschelle Gibbs sporting '09' and Mark Boucher '9' on their backs, has GS Vivek in the Indian Express intrigued.
Since 2005, the South African opener has changed his jersey number every 12 months in sync with the year. For example he sported 05 in 2005, 06 in 2006, 07 in 2007, 08 in 2008 and 09 in 2009. The fact that he prefixed his numbers with ‘0’ was also because it clashed with those of other team mates, like Boucher now.