'He just kept going for it, and it came off'
Sri Lanka didn't anticipate a hundred hit by a batsman with a squash ball in his glove would end their World Cup dreams in 2007
27-Jan-2015
Batting with a squash ball in your glove can be an uncomfortable experience, but not for Adam Gilchrist, who made 149 off 104 balls in a World Cup title match that way. It led Australia to their third World Cup title on the trot, after a comprehensive demolition of Sri Lanka in a rain-reduced final. Ricky Ponting, Nathan Bracken, Rahul Dravid, Ian Chappell, Mahela Jayawardene, Mark Nicholas, Jarrod Kimber and Gilchrist himself look back to that day in Barbados.
This video was first published in 2014