Biography-Adam Gilchrist

Adam Craig Gilchrist, nicknamed Gilly or Church, is a former Australian cricket player. He is an aggressive left-handed opening batsman and a record-breaking wicket-keeper of the Australian team. He has declared as the best wicket-keeper-batsman of the history. He has gained the world record as a wicket-keeper. He made the most dismissals among all wicket-keepers of the World in the ODI match and the most dismissals among the Australians in the test match. The strike rate of Gilchrist is the highest in both ODI and test cricket. He holds the record of the second fastest century of the test at present. He is the unique player who had scored 100 sixes in test cricket. He has also the record of having at least 50 runs in the three successive world cup finals in 1999, 2003 and 2007.

Gilchrist started his test career in 1999 against Pakistan at the Brisbane Cricket Ground of Brisbane. In that match, he scored 81 runs in the first innings. He did not need to do batting in the second innings. His ODI (One-Day International) career began in 1996 against South Africa at Nahar Singh Stadium of Faridabad. He scored only 18 runs in that match.

A. Gilchrist has played a total 96 test and 287 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 204 and 172 in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 17 test centuries and 16 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 5570. For one-day, it is 9619. His overall batting average is 47.60 in test, and 35.89 in one-day. He also played 68 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is unbeaten 109 runs

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