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Nets set up fabulous Gilchrist goodbye

Posted on 02/16/2008 in Australian cricket





Adam Gilchrist reaches his 16th ODI hundred © Getty Images

Adam Gilchrist got to the nets early before his farewell hundred at the WACA, Jon Pierik reports in the Courier-Mail.

More than two hours before play started against Sri Lanka, Gilchrist was working on his timing through repeated throwdowns from coach Tim Nielsen. Frustrated by an unlucky duck at the MCG last Sunday, the soon-to-retire Gilchrist was determined to do well for the last time in his adopted home city of Perth.

Michael Kasprowicz, who retires as a Queensland player on Saturday night, tells the same paper his best ball, sledge and batsman. His biggest regret is never scoring a century.

Peter Roebuck believes Usman Khawaja, who made his first-class debut for New South Wales on Friday, is part of the changing face of cricket in Australia. Read the piece in the Sydney Morning Herald.

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