Adam's new eve
It's Adam Gilchrist's fault
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan
25-Feb-2013
It's Adam Gilchrist's fault. Talk to any wicketkeeper nowadays and it's a given you'll spend as much time discussing how they are faring with the bat as you will going over their prowess with the gloves, writes Lyall Johnson in The Age.
Victoria's Adam Crosthwaite, rated extremely highly for his work behind the stumps, is possibly the most notable example of a wicketkeeper who has fallen victim to what is becoming known as the "Gilchrist legacy". With his first-class batting average at No 7 last season an uninspiring 20.63, the then second-year keeper was controversially dropped from the Bushrangers side in the lead-up to the final of the Pura Cup because he simply was not making enough runs.
Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo