Healy's record in sight for Gilchrist

Adam Gilchrist has hinted that his retirement might be further away than he originally planned and says there is "a good chance" this year's Boxing Day Test will not be his last. Gilchrist, 36, was mentally and physically fatigued at the same time last season during the Ashes campaign and at that stage he felt the end of his career was beckoning.

"This time last year I probably would have thought this one would be my last but I'm really enjoying it now and I don't know," Gilchrist told the Age. "It might be but there's a good chance it won't be as well, so I'm not looking for any swansong or farewell. I'm just playing it as I go along and really enjoying it as well."

Gilchrist needs only five dismissals to pass Ian Healy's Australian record of 395 victims and 14 dismissals would push him past Mark Boucher's world mark of 403. Gilchrist has 391 victims from 92 Tests - Healy took 119 games to reach his total and Boucher has played 106 matches.

"Just as it's inevitable I'll get to Heals' Australian record, even if I was to go past and catch Boucher, he's about four years younger than me so it will be inevitable that he'll end up finishing his career with the world record," Gilchrist said in the Weekend Australian. "It's something you don't focus on too much."

During the Boxing Day Test Gilchrist will wear pink wicketkeeping gloves to raise money for the cancer cause the McGrath Foundation. Gilchrist's sponsors will donate $18,000 per dismissal he claims in the Melbourne match.