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Adam Gilchrist AM was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2012 as an Athlete Member for his contribution to the sport of cricket.

Pure statistics dictate that Adam Gilchrist is one of the greatest wicketkeeper/batsmen in cricket history. In 96 Tests the left-hander compiled 5,570 runs at 47.60, claimed 379 catches and, with whip-quick reflexes, executed 37 stumpings; those dismissals remain an Australian wicket-keeping record. As an attacking top-order batsman, who possessed obvious ‘keeping skill, Gilchrist revolutionised the role of wicket keepers in Test and One Day cricket. His 9,619 ODI runs at 35.89 is enviable, however, it’s his 417 catches and 55 stumpings in 287 ODI matches that saw him set a world record, surpassed only by Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara in 2015.

Gilchrist’s strike rate remains amongst the games’ highest in both Test and ODI cricket and his 57-ball century against England at the WACA in Perth in 2006 is the fourth-fastest in Test cricket history. In 2002 he set the world record for the fastest test double-hundred (212 balls) against South Af

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Adam Gilchrist

The role of a wicket-keeper batsman primarily included keeping duties with the runs scored by the gloveman deemed as a bonus. All that changed with the arrival of Adam Gilchrist who revoluti...
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Batting Career Summary

M Inn Runs BF HS Avg SR NO 4s 6s 50 100 200
Test 96 137 5570 6796 204 47.61 81.96 20 677 100 26 17 1
ODI 287 279 9619 9922 172 35.89 96.95 11 1162 149 55 16 0
T20 13 13 272 192 48 22.67 141.67 1 27 13 0 0 0
IPL 80 80 2069 1495 109 27.22 138.40 4 239 92 11 2 0

Bowling Career Summary

M Inn B Runs Wkts Avg Econ SR BBI BBM 5w 10w
Test 96 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 -/- -/- 0 0
ODI 287 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 -/- -/- 0 0
T20 13 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 -/- -/- 0 0
IPL 80 1
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Adam Gilchrist

Going in first or seventh, wearing whites or coloureds, Adam Gilchrist was the symbolic heart of 2000s 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 one who 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, Gilchrist 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. Still he managed to score at a tempo - 81 per 100 balls in Tests, 96 in ODIs - that made Viv Richards and Gilbert Jessop look like sticks in the-mud.

Indeed it was arguably Gilchrist's belated Test arrival that turned Australia from powerful to overpowering. He bludgeoned 81 on debut, pouched five catches

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