Cricketer Herschelle Gibbs will go on trial for drunk driving on 3 December, 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 28 March after being pulled over for speeding.

On his previous court date, 27 June, 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 in early October only.

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