Retirement reality finally hits Gilly
Adam Gilchrist is set to play his final match in front of his adopted home ground, the WACA, when he takes guard against Sri Lanka today
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Adam Gilchrist is set to play his final match in front of his adopted home ground, the WACA, when he takes guard against Sri Lanka today. The crowd which booed Gilchrist more than 13 years ago in his first game for Western Australia, as a replacement for local legend Tim Zoehrer, will give him a very different reception. And the emotion is hitting him by the day, says Ricky Ponting. Read on in the Australian.
"He probably won't like me saying this but when I was batting in Sydney during the second game against Sri Lanka, in the middle of one of the overs he came down and had a bit of a chat. "He looked at me and said, 'I'm going to miss this. I'm going to miss being out here with you and I'm going to miss all the good times we've had on the field'.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo