Jason Gillespie is a cricketer for the South Australian Redbacks and started playing for Australia in the 1996. Jason Gillespie was born in Sydney in 1975 and his nickname is 'Dizzy' Gillespie, after Dizzy Gillespie the trumpeter.  Gillespie started cricket at 4, joining a club at 7 years old. When his family moved to South Australia, Gillespie watched the Sheffield Shield cricket matches with players like Rodney Hogg, Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson  and Wes Hall. The most memorable down side in his career was the collision with Australian captain Steven Waugh when Gillespie broke his right leg and Waugh broke his nose. 'Dizzy' was given the captaincy of the ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait International Cricketers) team in their historic match against Prime Ministers XI. Gillespie took a career best 5-19 in a one day match against Pakistan in September 2002. Gillespie was made the best Aboriginal Male Sports Star in  2001.