He is the cricketer who revolutionized the role of Wicket keeper. He was not just a swashbuckling batsman, but one who played all the possible shots in cricket with extreme amount of accuracy and power. He has an average of 48 from 96 Test Matches and that too with a Strike Rate of about 80 Runs per 100 balls. To score at this astonishing rate for such a long period shows his talent as a batsman. All the other such dynamic batsmen whom the media praise along with Adam Gilchrist – like Afridi, Flintoff, Dhoni – are not consistent deliverers of this sort of scoring and this places him in a class of his own. The only other Wicketkeeper batsman who can be placed at par with Adam is Andy Flower of Zimbabwe. If you look at his test career all his big hundreds came when Australians where facing dire situations - his 152 at Edgbaston in 2001, his ton at Perth in 2006, his heroic chase of 369 against Pakistan (when Aussies were facing sure defeat), his blasting double-ton against the proteas in 2002 are all pure gems. His wicketkeeping abilities too are very much above other wicket keepers - the only other wicket keepers who can be compared to him are Mark Boucher and Ian Healy. More over, he was a real real Gentle Man in the current ugly cricket scenario. Sure we will all Miss him.

Even as a Pom i'll miss him, great batsman and wicket keeper plus seems like a true gent. Very rare in modern sport and even more rare seeing as he has played through a particularly ungentlemanly Australian era.