Adam Gilchrist

So farewell, Adam Gilchrist. Norm marks his retirement with all the right links:

You may not know him from Adam, but I have to mark the retirement from Test cricket of one of the greats of the game. In the Adelaide Test, just concluded, he passed Mark Boucher to go to the top of the table for the most Test dismissals by a wicket-keeper. Soon afterwards he annouced that he was calling it a day. What a day it has been. Two of its highlights I saw with my own eyes: his 152 at Edgbaston in 2001 – during this innings he shared a partnership of 63 with Glenn McGrath, McGrath’s contribution to which was a single run – and the second-fastest Test century of all time, at Perth in 2006. Adam Gilchrist, people – it’s been a pleasure to see him play.

As always the numbers are a beginning, not an end.