Cricketer Herschelle Gibbs will go on trial for drunken driving on December 3, a Cape Town magistrate ordered on Friday.
Gibbs, wearing a grey suit and dark tie, stood in the dock as his attorney told magistrate Ingrid Freitag that the date had been agreed with the state.
The attorney, Peter Whelan, said he would be briefing counsel for the trial, and hoped to obtain the services of Cape Town advocate Craig Webster.
Gibbs was arrested in Sea Point on March 28 after being pulled over for speeding.
On his previous court date, June 27, he did not appear, and the attorney who acted for him then said he was playing cricket overseas and would be back in the country only in early October.
Freitag on Friday withdrew the authorisation for a warrant of arrest she had ordered to be held over in June, and reinstated Gibbs’s R500 bail, which had been provisionally forfeited to the state.
Whelan told reporters afterwards that Gibbs would plead not guilty.
Gibbs declined to speak to the media. — Sapa