Cricket DiariesIs it bye-bye Adam Gilchrist?
April 10th 2010 12:55
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Adam Gilchrist, in his autobiography, has said that the moment he dropped VVS Laxman's catch in one of the Tests in the series back home against India in 2008, he knew that he was over. End of career.
So, is that how all the big guns know when they need to finish it?
Then again, this was yesterday, what with the life being totally changed with the advent of IPL. The biggies of tomorrow would probably want to quit even before they dropped a catch, scored a duck or were smacked for 100 in their quota of ten overs. Much easier at the IPL, despite the heat and humidity of Chennai and Nagpur.
The question then is, when do you quit the IPL? And this is in the particular reference to the likes of Gilly, Haydos, Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly and the rest of them, who would soon be blowing out 40 candles on their birthday cake.
Take the example of Gilchrist. To say that he has made heavy weather of batting in this IPL would be an understatement. Especially, after knowing well that, when at the top of his form, he has made bowlers weep. And s*** in their pants.
But what would be worse for Gilly is that he actually allowed a couple of byes to go through him in the game against the Chennai Super Kings at Nagpur; he neither had to dive for the ball, nor bend a lot - it was a plain loss of concentration. And my sense tells me that if the Chargers do get knocked out of the tournament without making it to the semi-finals, it could very well be bye-bye Gilly.
Talking of dropped catches in IPL, it is worth mentioning that in the game between Mumbai and Punjab yesterday, there was a near-repeat of the Herschelle Gibbs incident with Steve Waugh of the 1999 World Cup. Fortunately, the batsman was declared out!
So, is that how all the big guns know when they need to finish it?
Then again, this was yesterday, what with the life being totally changed with the advent of IPL. The biggies of tomorrow would probably want to quit even before they dropped a catch, scored a duck or were smacked for 100 in their quota of ten overs. Much easier at the IPL, despite the heat and humidity of Chennai and Nagpur.
The question then is, when do you quit the IPL? And this is in the particular reference to the likes of Gilly, Haydos, Tendulkar, Dravid, Ganguly and the rest of them, who would soon be blowing out 40 candles on their birthday cake.
Take the example of Gilchrist. To say that he has made heavy weather of batting in this IPL would be an understatement. Especially, after knowing well that, when at the top of his form, he has made bowlers weep. And s*** in their pants.
But what would be worse for Gilly is that he actually allowed a couple of byes to go through him in the game against the Chennai Super Kings at Nagpur; he neither had to dive for the ball, nor bend a lot - it was a plain loss of concentration. And my sense tells me that if the Chargers do get knocked out of the tournament without making it to the semi-finals, it could very well be bye-bye Gilly.
Talking of dropped catches in IPL, it is worth mentioning that in the game between Mumbai and Punjab yesterday, there was a near-repeat of the Herschelle Gibbs incident with Steve Waugh of the 1999 World Cup. Fortunately, the batsman was declared out!
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