Adam Gilchrist
Adam Gilchrist
Adam Craig Gilchrist, AM, nicknamed "Gilly" or "Churchy", is a former Australian cricketer and one of the most explosive batsmen in world cricket. He was the captain of Australia, and Middlesex. He is an attacking left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper, who redefined the role for the Australia national cricket team through his aggressive batting. He is widely regarded as the greatest wicket-keeper–batsman in the history of the game. He held the world record for the most dismissals by a wicket-keeper...
ProfessionCricket Player
Date of Birth14 November 1971
team character winning
It was an amazing win and testament to the character of the team. From the position we were in it must be one of the greatest comebacks.
anywhere australia coming expect field flak happens talk teams
But you would expect that anywhere in the world. Teams coming to Australia also expect some flak from the crowds. It's all part of the game, but there's more talk about what happens on the field than actually happens.
bangladesh came stood team
Bangladesh is underrated, but the team came out and stood up to us.
against bat confident periods teams
They'll come here confident they can bat for long periods against us, which a lot of teams haven't been able to do over the years.
ashes bit england entered hard head hit lose team tough trip work
This has been a hard trip and we feel a little bit under siege. England have hit us hard, and the thought has entered my head - 'What if we're the first team to lose the Ashes for such a long time?' It's new to us and it has been tough to work out how to get through it.
feeling frustrated team understand zealand
I can understand why the New Zealand team are feeling disappointed and frustrated at that,
bad start
We made a bad start with our bowling, but got it right after the first session.
bad bangladesh start
We had a bad start with our batting. Bangladesh also bowled very well.
came chance game keeping performance pleasing took walk
To walk off with a keeping performance that, I took every chance that came my way really, that's as pleasing as anything I can do in the game of cricket.
ashes loses side
You can't be part of the side that loses the Ashes after all these years.
focused played saving
On reflection, I think I was too focused on saving the game, ... I should have played naturally. I was too entrenched in a match-saving mindset.
england momentum
But we'll keep on. There's a long way to go but all the momentum is with England at the moment.
definitely depth fight generally great matches quality test time wins
But Test matches generally the quality wins out over time and they have great depth in quality and we feel like we have got it (as well), they will definitely put up a fight I am sure.
difficult
So it's been very difficult for Ricky, I think.