Gilchrist dazzles on biggest stage
- 28 Apr 07, 08:30 PM
Barbados - Wow! There was just no other way to describe Adam Gilchrist’s performance as he took Sri Lanka’s attack to pieces with the highest score ever in a World Cup final.
After 149 runs, just 104 deliveries faced, 13 fours and a record-equalling eight sixes there seemed little doubt that Australia’s total – in a matched reduced to 38 overs per side – would be out of sight.
Muscular forcing shots to full deliveries were pinged into the sightscreen, drives off the front foot bisected fielders perfectly and there was the odd bit of luck that few great innings can be without.
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