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Gavin Ewing
Personal information
Full name
Gavin Mackie Ewing
Born (1981-01-21) 21 January 1981 (age 43)
Harare, Zimbabwe
BattingRight-hand bat
BowlingRight-arm offbreak
RoleAll-rounder
International information
National side
Test debut17 October 2003 v Australia
Last Test13 September 2005 v India
ODI debut1 December 2004 v England
Last ODI4 September 2005 v India
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
2002–5Matabeleland
2009–13Matabeleland Tuskers
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 3 7 56 62
Runs scored 108 97 3,288 1,281
Batting average 18.00 13.85 40.09 27.25
100s/50s 0/1 0/0 7/19 1/6
Top score 71 46 212 106
Balls bowled 426 312 7,123 2,160
Wickets 2 5 98 43
Bowling average 130.00 47.20 34.25 35.16
5 wickets in innings 0 0 4 0
10 wickets in match 0 0 0 0
Best bowling 1/27 3/31 7/64 3/8
Catches/stumpings 1/– 3/– 26/– 22/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 11 June 2015

Gavin Mackie Ewing (born 21 January 1981, in Harare) is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman and bowls a right-arm offbreak. As a teenager he spent a short time at Potchefstroom Boys High in South Africa before returning to Zimbabwe to complete his schooling at Falcon College in Esigodini.

He plays for Zimbabwe and Matabeleland. His current Test high batting score is 71, with an average of 18. He was initially called up for the 2003–04 tour in Australia, having previously played in the 1999 Under-19 World Cup and finished in the list of the top ten wicket players. He is a confident and aggressive middle-order batsman, and amongst the list of fifteen cricketers who had a coming together with the country's Cricket Union in 2004. He returned to the side in November of that year. In 2009, he spent a season playing cricket in Devon for Paignton CC, having a reasonable season before returning to Zimbabwe.