ushma87star
June 2nd, 2007, 10:40 AM
Adam Gilchrist, one of the most destructive ODI batsmen with a staggering strike rate of 96.65, is considering retirement from the shorter version of the game to prolong his Test career.
The explosive Australian batsman, with 9038 runs including 15 hundreds from 268 ODIs, has all along maintained that he would not quit one form of the game for the sake of extending the other.
And the swashbuckling left-hander was in supreme form in his last ODI innings, in the World Cup final in the Caribbean a little more than a month ago, when he hit a cracker of century to decimate the Sri Lankan attack.
But the birth of his third child and the uniform exit of his teammates-Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and Shane Warne-from the international scene seem to have triggered a change of opinion.
"Up until the last 12 months, I had never been a guy to consider phasing out one form of the game and just focusing on one," 35-year-old Gilchrist was quoted as saying by The Sydney Morning Herald.
"But I am open to thinking about that now. I have been quite firm on playing both forms in the past, but I guess that things have changed a little," he added.
The explosive Australian batsman, with 9038 runs including 15 hundreds from 268 ODIs, has all along maintained that he would not quit one form of the game for the sake of extending the other.
And the swashbuckling left-hander was in supreme form in his last ODI innings, in the World Cup final in the Caribbean a little more than a month ago, when he hit a cracker of century to decimate the Sri Lankan attack.
But the birth of his third child and the uniform exit of his teammates-Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and Shane Warne-from the international scene seem to have triggered a change of opinion.
"Up until the last 12 months, I had never been a guy to consider phasing out one form of the game and just focusing on one," 35-year-old Gilchrist was quoted as saying by The Sydney Morning Herald.
"But I am open to thinking about that now. I have been quite firm on playing both forms in the past, but I guess that things have changed a little," he added.