Gerard Brophy Cricketer
Gerard Louis Brophy is a first-class cricketer, presently contracted to Yorkshire. He has also played for Ireland, Free State, Northamptonshire and Transvaal in a well travelled career. He was educated at Christian Brothers College, Boksburg, and made his first-class debut in the 1996/97 South African season. Standing relatively tall for a keeper at five feet eleven inches, he has taken 288 first-class catches and completed 21 stumpings. A right hand batsman, he has scored 5,387 runs at 32.25 with eight hundreds and a best of 185. He has played in 116 List A matches, scoring 2,032 runs at 26.73 with a top score of 93* and 52 Twenty20 games, making 701 runs at 19.47 with a best of 57*. Although born in South Africa, he holds a British passport, and so is not considered an overseas player in the English first class game. He represented East Transvaal in that sport in 1991. He struggled with the bat in his first season with Yorkshire in 2006, and faced a fight for a first team place with Simon Guy and Greg Wood. However, he prevailed, although Brophy now shares keeping duties for Yorkshire with Jonny Bairstow.