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Gilchrist's slump adds to case for lighter load
Source: smh.com.au - November 28, 2005
It is a sign of how strong Adam Gilchrist has been for so long that eyebrows might be raised after a string of four Test innings without a 50. But those who have watched him bat in the past few months - especially these past two weeks - may be hankering for the Gilchrist of old.
Australia has been spoiled by Gilchrist's success, as the NSW-born West Australian scythed through attack after attack to rise to his status as the finest wicketkeeper-batsman the game has known.
But his batting returns since embarking on Australia's ill-fated Ashes tour have been far short of his usual standard. Gilchrist went into that tour with a Test form line highlighted by centuries in three successive Tests, before an unbeaten 60 in the third and final Test in New Zealand. From the start of the England tour, however, up to his dismissal for six in the third Test yesterday, Gilchrist has averaged just 25 in Tests, making 328 from 14 innings with just one half-century, his 94 against the World XI in Sydney last month.
That contrasts with his one-day returns in the same period - 573 runs from 13 matches at an average of 52. These figures may further encourage those who argue Gilchrist, with his heavy workload, may benefit from a break from one-dayers, perhaps a permanent one.
It has not just been his shortage of runs in this series that has caused alarm but his modes of dismissal. Yesterday, on a fair batting pitch, the left-hander was lucky to survive on nought, when badly dropped by keeper Denesh Ramdin.
He made only six runs, however, before the West Indies' plan to attack him outside off stump paid off with a catch in the covers off Dwayne Bravo.
In Gilchrist's only innings in Hobart, when a cut shot - also against Bravo - yielded a catch at point, he was out for two.
His legion of fans will be hoping his form struggles during the Ashes series, when he was repeatedly undone by Andrew Flintoff, and against a modest West Indian attack will be short-lived.
- TREVOR MARSHALLSEA