After all the furore surrounding it, the Tri-series has finally come to an end. Although it was a long series, Dhoni and his men shortened it by a match.
This series was filled with some significant events like the "Bhajji-Symonds row", Tendulkar scoring his first ODI century down under, India winning an ODI series on Australian soil after a hiatus of more than 20 years.
But the most memorable one for me will always be Adam Gilchrist's retirement from the game.
Gilly is one of the greatest (if not the greatest) players world cricket has seen. He is the one who revolutionized test cricket, started a trend of scoring at a run rate of 4 plus in test cricket. Everyone knows the statistics and Gilly's strike rate in different forms of the game which truly reflect his greatness. Unfortunately, his farewell from ODI's was a low-key affair. After the final ball had been bowled I sat glued to the PC waiting for the presentation ceremony expecting a grand good-bye for the best wicket keeper. But no such thing happened. Just a short speech by Gilly, that's it. Even today morning i opened TOI with hope of spotting at least 2-3 articles by former cricketers, but TOI (as usual) disappointed me. Not even a single line related to his retirement had been included.
Such a small adios for somebody who has been voted as the "World's Scariest Batsman" in a poll of international bowlers !
5 comments:
Well certainly, it could had been more for Adam then just few words.
No doubt he was one of the best wicket-keeper batsman the world of cricket has seen. Cheers to him !!
Gilchrist was the most honest of the Aussie lot too, choosing to 'walk' when his teammates played 'hard' cricket.
And yea, the Times has this irritating habit of going overboard whenever India wins. It's catering to the lowest level of readers I suppose. Srikanth would agree :D
hey man u are rite yaar
gilly deserved much more and yeah good article man ..
so now ur in2 blah-gin as well
gr8..
well lets just put it this way....
gilchrist is d best keeper of all time....
nd it would need a wicket-keepin sachin tendulkar to be a better player than gilly
Adam Gilchrist is one of the legends of the game.Perhaps the best wicket keeper batsman ever.and yes the media could have easily spared little more space for him.But I guess he doesn't need all that,his achievements and great knocks he produced will be remembered forever by cricket lovers all over the world.
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