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"Two beds, two cricketers and three women. One of them wasn't all that keen, though; she just lay on the bed. Which was fine - there was enough for everyone. The other two girls, however, more than made a go of it.
"I got the ball rolling, but then I noticed that my mate was feeling a little left out. Now he's lying on the other bed, so, big-hearted chap that I am, I say, 'Well, you can't leave my mate all alone there.' And fortunately one of them was only too happy to transfer ship."
There were always women: "They came hunting in packs, and if they liked what they saw, you were in for the ride of your life."
During the same tour, he writes about bumping into a girl on her way to a matric dance: "I spotted one particularly gorgeous girl, obviously dressed to the nines, walking around the hotel lobby.
"After a few drinks and a few words, she came upstairs with me to my room and gave me a little dance of another kind. She then left and went back to the dance proper."
Then, during one of their warm-up games on the 1997-98 Australia tour, Gibbs and some of the guys noticed a "pretty girl" and asked her to join them that evening. They started drinking and she mentioned she was a stripper.
"Things loosened up a lot more after that. Various items of clothing were removed in an eyebrow-raising kind of way, and one thing invariably led to another."
"The team has been criticised for being run by a group of senior players - Graeme Smith, Jacques Kallis, Mark Boucher and, more recently, AB de Villiers - and this inner circle splits the team in two and makes any chance of developing true team spirit among the Proteas impossible," says Gibbs.
Former coach Mickey Arthur tried to take on the senior players, but often bowed to them.
"Simply put, without Graeme's backing, Mickey didn't have much influence over the guys. In the end, Graeme was simply too powerful."
He reveals how the team never regained its spirit after former captain Hansie Cronjé was dismissed for match fixing.
"Things were never the same ... I sympathised with Shaun Pollock - he had a tough time filling Hansie's shoes and gluing the team back together.
"But the Proteas never had that same togetherness under Polly. He never socialised with the boys too much
