Former South Africa opener Herschelle Gibbs has revealed the reason what exactly led to him being faced a two-Test ban by the International Cricket Council (ICC) in the 2007 home series against Pakistan. In 2007, Gibbs had been banned by the ICC for passing a racial comment against a section of Pakistani spectators in the first Test played in Centurion. On the stump microphone, Herschelle Gibbs was caught telling that Pakistani supporters were behaving “like bloody animals”. And now, he has shared the reason as well.

“Called some rowdy Pakistan supporters animals. They forced my son and his mother out of their seats in front of the players viewing area,” wrote Herschelle Gibbs while answering one of his Twitter followers about the comments he made during that series and faced the ban.

https://twitter.com/hershybru/status/1219615171079036936?s=20

Gibbs represented South Africa in 90 Tests and 248 ODIs in which he scored 6,167 and 8,094 runs respectively. He also played in 23 Twenty20 Internationals scoring 400 runs.

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However, South Africa Cricket recently going through a lot of changes, including the appointment of new ODI captain – Quinton de Kock.

“We all know the quality of the player that Quinton de Kock has grown to become,” Graeme Smith, the CSA Acting Director of Cricket said.

“Over the years, we have watched him grow in confidence and become one of the top ODI wicket-keeper batsmen in the world. He has a unique outlook and manner in which he goes about his business and is tactically very street smart. We are confident that the new leadership role will bring out the best in him as a cricketer and that he can take the team forward into the future and produce results that South Africans the world over can be very proud of. We wish him the very best in this new role and look forward to watching him make his mark in this series against the World Cup Champions,” he added.