Adam Gilchrist

Full name: Adam Craig Gilchrist

Born on: November 14, 1971 at New South Wales.

Teams represented: Australia, New South Wales, Western Australia and World Eleven.

Specialty: Wicketkeeper and lef hand batsman.

Profile: Considered as the best wicketkeeper-batsman in the world, Adam Gilchrist is an ideal Twenty20 player even though he has not done full justice to his batting in this form of cricket.

The Aussie stumper, who has scored 9527 One-Day runs after making his debut against South Africa at Faridabad on October 25, 1996 has 172 as his best score for an amazing strike rate of 96.60 from 284 matches. He has been a big success in Test matches as well.

He made his Test debut against Pakistan at Brisbane in November 1999 and from 96 Tests has amassed 5570 runs with an unbeaten 204 as his highest individual score with 17 centuries and 50 half centuries from 137 innings for an incredible average of 47.60.

He has also held 416 catches and effected 55 stumping in ODIs while picking up 416 Test victims, including 37 stumping, in a career spanning nearly a decade.

In the Twenty20 Internationals Gilchrist, who made his debut against New Zealand at Auckland on February 17, 2005, has played 13 matches so far scoring 272 runs with 48 as his highest at a strike rate of 141.66, with 27 boundaries and 13 sixes to his credit. He is also taken 17 catches behind the wicket.

With a safe pair of hands and attacking batting, Gilchrist is the star of Hyderabad team in the IPL tourney commanding a prize of 700,000 US Dollars per year.

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