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English allrounder Danielle Gibson earned a Rs 30 lakh contract from the Gujarat Giants within the WPL 2025 mini-auction.
‘I Labored As Waitress’: Gujarat Giants’ English Allrounder Reveals Former Profession (Image credit score: BCCI)
Gujarat Giants’ English all-rounder Danielle Gibson, on Saturday, March 1, revealed that she used to work as a waitress earlier than changing into a full-time cricketer, although she didn’t take pleasure in it.
Gibson labored at an area pub as a waitress to earn cash. She earned a Rs 30 lakh contract from the Giants within the WPL 2025 mini-auction.
Gibson has represented England in 22 T20Is. Whereas she is making a good sum of money by plying her commerce within the Girls’s Premier League, that wasn’t all the time the story.
“I labored as a waitress in England at a pub. I didn’t take pleasure in it,” Gibson stated whereas talking throughout a rapid-fire session. Watch the video right here:
In the identical video, Gibson talked about that the primary time she went to a stay cricket sport was at Lord’s 18 years in the past when she was simply six years outdated. She added that she went to observe her brothers play within the last of a match.
Gibson named former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff when requested to call her first cricket hero. She added that her first cellphone was a Samsung touchscreen gadget.
“I don’t like cricket (on one ankle). I like it. (on the opposite ankle),” Gibson stated when requested about her first tattoo.
Born in 2001 in Gloucestershire, Gibson made her debut for England in July 2023 in a T20I in opposition to Australia in Birmingham. She final featured in a girls’s Ashes tour sport in opposition to Governor-Basic XI Girls in North Sydney final month, the place she bowled a very good spell of 3-0-14-0.
Apart from the Giants, Gibson has performed for the Adelaide Strikers and London Spirit as nicely.
In the meantime, Ashleigh Gardner led from the entrance with a blazing 58 off 31 deliveries as bottom-placed Giants snapped their shedding streak with a dominant six-wicket victory over Royal Challengers Bengaluru.
Opting to bowl, the Giants placed on a disciplined bowling show, with Deandra Dottin (2/31) and Tanuja Kanwar (2/16) proscribing Bengaluru to a below-par 125/7.
The Giants took simply 17 overs to seal the win in opposition to Bengaluru and can subsequent face the UP Warriorz on March 3 in Lucknow.