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Full name Adam Craig Gilchrist
Born November 14, 1971, Bellingen, New South Wales
Current age 33 years 241 days
Major teams ICC World XI, Australia, New South Wales, Western
Australia
Nickname Gilly
Playing role Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Height 1.85 m
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
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Tests 68 97 17 4452 204* 55.64 5347 83.26 15 20 547 80 260 27
ODIs 219 213 9 7362 172 36.08 7720 95.36 11 42 891 101 321 42
Twenty-20 Int. 2 2 0 16 15 8.00 17 94.11 0 0 0 0
First-class 158 234 43 9061 204* 47.43 28 36 625 45
List A 279 268 17 8744 172 34.83 12 50 420 51
Twenty-20 2 2 0 16 15 8.00 17 94.11 0 0 0 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 68 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
ODIs 219 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
Twenty-20 Int. 2 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
First-class 158 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
List A 279 12 10 0 - - - 5.00 - 0 0 0
Twenty-20 2 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
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Test debut Australia v Pakistan at Brisbane - Nov 5-9, 1999
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Last Test New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Mar 26-29, 2005
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ODI debut Australia v South Africa at Faridabad - Oct 25, 1996
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Last ODI England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005 scorecard
Twenty-20 Int. debut New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17,
2005 scorecard
Last Twenty-20 Int. England v Australia at Southampton - Jun 13,
2005 scorecard
First-class span 1992/93 - 2004/05
List A span 1992/93 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004/05 - 2005
Going in first or seventh, wearing whites or
coloureds, Adam Gilchrist is the symbolic heart of Australia's
steamrolling agenda and the most exhilarating cricketer of the
modern age. He is simultaneously a cheerful throwback to more
innocent times, a flap-eared country boy who has walked when given
not out in a World Cup semi-final, and swatted his second ball for
six while sitting on a Test pair. "Just hit the ball," is how he
once described his philosophy on batting, and he seldom strays from
it. Employing a high-on-the-handle grip, he pokes good balls into
gaps and throttles all others, invariably with head straight, wrists
soft and balance sublime. Only at the death does he jettison the
textbook, whirling his bat like a hammer-thrower, caring only for
the scoreboard and never his average. Still he manages 15 runs per
innings more than any other keeper in history, at a tempo - 82 per
100 balls in Tests, 94 in one-dayers - that makes Viv Richards and
Gilbert Jessop look like stick-in-the-muds. When he signed a record
A$2million sponsorship deal with Puma in 2004, though Cheetah might
have been more apt, few people questioned his value for money.
Indeed it was arguably Gilchrist's belated Test arrival that turned
the present Australian XI from powerful to overpowering. He
bludgeoned 81 on debut, pouched five catches and a stumping, and has
barely paused for breath since. In Tests, two Gilchrist innings rank
among the most amazing by Australians: his death-defying unbeaten
149 against Pakistan at Hobart when all seemed lost, and his savage
and emotional 204 not out against South Africa at Johannesburg. In
one-dayers, his 172 is one short of Mark Waugh's Australian record
and his overall number of one-day career dismissals might take
decades to top. A family man and dedicated newspaper columnist, his
2003 World Cup diary - Walking To Victory - was miles superior to
Ricky Ponting and Glenn McGrath's meat-and-three-veg versions. As
Australia's 41st Test captain he found the extra burden tiring, and
was happy for Ricky Ponting to step in. But as Ponting's fill-in he
crossed the final frontier, leading Australia to their first series
win in India for 35 years. As a wicketkeeper he lacks Rod Marsh's
acrobatics and Ian Healy's finesse, and he probably peaked at 30 in
2002. But if he clutches few screamers he drops even fewer sitters.
Eventually his jangling knees might tempt him to give up the gloves
and move up the order as a specialist batsman - he owns the most
centuries of anyone to combine both roles. But tomorrow can wait
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