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Adam Gilchrist

Australia

Full name Adam Craig Gilchrist

Born November 14, 1971, Bellingen, New South Wales

Current age 42 years 139 days

Major teams Australia, Deccan Chargers, ICC World XI,Kings XI Punjab, Middlesex, New South Wales,Western Australia

Nickname Gilly, Churchy

Playing role Wicketkeeper batsman

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm offbreak

Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Height 1.86 m

Batting and fielding averages

	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	BF	SR	100	50	4s	6s	Ct	St
Tests	96	137	20	5570	204*	47.60	6796	81.95	17	26	677	100	379	37
ODIs	287	279	11	9619	172	35.89	9922	96.94	16	55	1162	149	417	55
T20Is	13	13	1	272	48	22.66	192	141.66	0	0	27	13	17	0
First-class	190	280	46	10334	204*	44.16			30	43			756	55
List A	356	343	19	11326	172	34.95			18	63			526	65
Twenty20	102	102	5	2622	109*	27.03	1869	140.28	3	13	296	120	74	22

Bowling averages

	Mat	Inns	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Econ	SR	4w	5w	10
Tests	96	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
ODIs	287	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
T20Is	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
First-class	190	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
List A	356		12	10	0	-	-	-	5.00	-	0	0	0
Twenty20	102	1	1	0	1	1/0	1/0	0.00	0.00	1.0	0	0	0

Profile

Going in first or seventh, wearing whites or coloureds, Adam Gilchrist was the symbolic heart of Australia's steamrolling agenda and the most exhilarating cricketer of the modern age. He was simultaneously a cheerful throwback to more innocent times, a flap-eared country boy who 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 strayed from it. Employing a high-on-the-handle grip, he poked good balls into gaps and throttled most others, invariably with head straight, wrists soft and balance sublime. Only at the death did he jettison the textbook, whirling his bat like a hammer-thrower, caring only for the scoreboard and never his average. Still he managed to score at a tempo - 81 per 100 balls in Tests, 96 in one-dayers - that made Viv Richards and Gilbert Jessop look like stick-in-the-muds.

Best Performances

• 149* v Pakistan, Hobart, 1999-2000
• 204* v South Africa, Johannesburg, 2001-02
• The rockbottom for the helpless South African bowlers comes when he decides to go for an advertising hoarding offering a bar of gold, worth 1.3 million rand, for a direct hit. The billboard is 30 feet in the air, and well behind the deep mid-wicket boundary. But Gilchrist aims to hit Neil McKenzie goldwards, jumping up and down as the ball makes it way towards the hoarding. He misses by a couple of feet, but enough damage has been done by then as that shot takes him to 175. Gilchrist reaches 200 with his 19th four from his 212th delivery. It is the quickest double-century at the time.