Born on the 14th of November 1971, Adam Gilchrist has been an amazing played and cricketer for the Australian cricket team. He has captained the Kings XI Punjab in the IPL series and has put in a great deal of effort in ensuring that his team excels in its performance in all matches whether it is in any Test match or even a one day international. He started off his career in the year 1991 when he got selected for the Australian Young Cricketers which was a national youth team that was touring around England. His excellent performance and his centuries and fifties made him get accepted into the Australian cricket academy. Gilchrist joined the one day international squad in the year 1996 and proved to be a consistent and brilliant skillful player even then.
Adam Gilchrist is known to be a star batsman besides his exceptional wicket keeping abilities. His initial matches in the World Cup campaign has been extra ordinary in performance and this has eventually led to his growth in the cricketing world. Most of the success that Australia had during the world cup was mostly owed to the raging and firing performance of this start player. Gilchrist had struggled throughout the entire tournament and it eventually resulted in a happy ending by him being chosen and selected for the most successful batsmen and wicket keeper of the tournament.
Adam Gilchrist started his test debut against Pakistan in the month of November 1999. He had started his career in test cricket after replacing Ian Healy who had eventually had a drop out due to poor performance. Gilchrist has had a moderate innings all throughout his career but managed to be consistent all throughout his cricketing career. Gilchrist has performed brilliantly all throughout and finally retired in the year 2008 after the fourth and final Test against India which eventually went on for a victory for Australia.
Gilchrist had an amazing time during his IPL series where he was chosen to represent the Deccan Chargers for a whopping amount of 700 thousand dollars. The style of play that Gilchrist follows has been one of the most important and crucial factors that has helped Australia to win most of their matches. He usually opens the batting for Australia in most of the one day matches so as to help them off on a good start.