List of Australian, Kiwi, British or South African international players who could have imagined playing for their ancestral country as associate members:

[Ahsanur R]

List of Australian, Kiwi, British or South African international players who could have imagined playing for their ancestral country as associate members:

Shane Warne - Germany

Justin Langer - Germany

Darren Lehmann - Germany

Jason Gillespie - Greece

Marcus Stoinis - Greece

Adam Zampa - Italy

Mitchell Starc - Slovenia

Daniel Vettori - Italy

Luke Ronchi - Italy

Neil Wagner - Germany

Colin de Grandhomme - France

Mitchell Santner - Germany, Austria

Glenn Phillips - Germany

Marnus Labuschagne - Netherlands/Germany/France

Jason Behrendorff - Germany

Ben Dwarshuis - Netherlands

Dawid Malan - France/Netherland

Andrew Strauss - Germany

Kevin Pietersen - Netherland/France/Germany

Francois du Plessis - France

Ab de Villiers - France

Jacques Kallis - Greece

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On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 21:16:56 -0800 (PST), Ahsanur R
<rashi...@gmail.com> wrote:

>Jason Gillespie - Greece

How did he manage to have an Irish, or Ulster / Scots name?


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[John Hall]

In message <bsipmihdrtl836aip...@4ax.com>, max. it
<m...@tea.time> writes

According to Wikipedia:

"Jason Gillespie is a descendant on his father's side of the Kamilaroi
people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged
Aboriginal male to become a Test cricketer. His mother has Greek
heritage and Jason is the eldest of the three children."

Which doesn't clear up the surname "Gillespie". I imagine that at some
point a few generations back, Australian bureaucrats probably decided
that all of the aboriginal people must have a surname and, whether by
the person's choice or at the whim of one of those bureaucrats, his
ancestor acquired the name "Gillespie".
--
John Hall
"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people
from coughing."
Sir Ralph Richardson (1902-83)

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On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 21:22:27 +0000, John Hall <john_...@jhall.co.uk>
wrote:

>In message <bsipmihdrtl836aip...@4ax.com>, max. it
><m...@tea.time> writes
>>On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 21:16:56 -0800 (PST), Ahsanur R
>><rashi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Jason Gillespie - Greece
>>
>>How did he manage to have an Irish, or Ulster / Scots name?
>>
>>
>>max.it
>
>According to Wikipedia:
>
>"Jason Gillespie is a descendant on his father's side of the Kamilaroi
>people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged
>Aboriginal male to become a Test cricketer. His mother has Greek
>heritage and Jason is the eldest of the three children."
>
>Which doesn't clear up the surname "Gillespie". I imagine that at some
>point a few generations back, Australian bureaucrats probably decided
>that all of the aboriginal people must have a surname and, whether by
>the person's choice or at the whim of one of those bureaucrats, his
>ancestor acquired the name "Gillespie".

It's a very common name around here. I think it means servant of a
priest or bishop or something.
It's been claimed that McAnespie means son of the bishop but more
likely means son of the servant of the bishop.

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