Haddin has people asking Adam who?
Peter Lalor, writing in the Australian , tries to remember Australia’s wicketkeeper before Brad Haddin, who broke through with his maiden Test century.
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Peter Lalor, writing in the Australian, tries to remember Australia’s wicketkeeper before Brad Haddin, who broke through with his maiden Test century.
It was in Adelaide last summer that Adam Gilchrist (the name has come back) saw the ball fall from glove and with it the will to go on. Haddin, who waited so long to go from bridesmaid to gloveman, has come of age at the corresponding Test. The New South Wales wicketkeeper smothered his doubts and silenced the doubters with an aggressive 169 ... It was, in the main, as game-changing as anything Gilchrist dished out.
Another player had an important day on Sunday, with Shane Watson taking seven wickets and scoring 81 for Queensland. In the Daily Telegraph Robert Craddock says Watson should return to the side for the first Test against South Africa in Perth on December 17.
At his best - and we are yet to see his best in Tests - Watson can be a more valuable player to Australia than Andrew Symonds because he is capable of being chosen as a specialist fast bowler. That's gold. Pure gold. The jury is still out on who is the better batsman.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo