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Changed the role of the keeper: Adam Gilchrist redefined cricket with his high-class batting on top of his ability with the gloves
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Who’d be a keeper? Perhaps we all should. When Adam Gilchrist made his state and then national debut, he walked out to a stream of boos. Not from the opposition but from his home crowd, upset that he had usurped the incumbent keeper. Twelve years later, as he stepped off the pitch for the last time in an Australian shirt, he was a man credited with changing the nature of the keeper/batter ...