Eric Gillott, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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New Zealand cricketer
Date of Birth: 15-Apr-1951
Place of Birth: Waiuku, Auckland, New Zealand
Profession: cricketer
Nationality: New Zealand
Zodiac Sign: Aries 
About Eric Gillott
- Eric Kenneth Gillott (born 15 April 1951) played first-class and List A cricket for Northern Districts between 1971/72 and 1978/79.
- He also toured England in 1973 as part of the New Zealand team that played three Tests, though he did not feature in the Tests.
- He was born at Waiuku, Auckland, New Zealand. Gillott was a right-handed tail-end batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler.
- He made his first-class and List A debuts for Northern Districts in the 1971/72 season and in his second match he took six Otago wickets for 79 runs in 43 overs in the match at Dunedin.
- The 29 wickets he took in six matches in that New Zealand cricket season were beaten only by the 31 taken by another slow left-arm bowler, the Test player Hedley Howarth.
- He followed this with 23 wickets in the 1972/73 season, with a further six-wicket haul, six for 105, in the match against Wellington at the Basin Reserve.This led to his call-up for the 1973 New Zealand tour of England, but he was not a success and took only 10 first-class wickets on the tour.
- Wisden Cricketers' Almanack's report of the tour said of him: "Gillott showed he had yet to develop all the skills of a top-class left-hander." It noted also that there were few pitches suited to spin bowling, which also had not helped the senior left-arm spinner, Howarth, who had been successful on the 1969 tour.
- Gillott was no more successful on his return to New Zealand for the 1973/74 season, and he dropped out of the Northern Districts side at the end of the season. In 1976, Gillott spent a cricket season in England playing non-first-class Minor Counties cricket for Buckinghamshire, taking 41 wickets in the season, the most by any player in the team.
- He returned to New Zealand for a further single season of first-class cricket for Northern Districts in 1978/79, but with little success, and left top-class cricket entirely after that.
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