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Gilchrist Needs Some Serious Help 

November 5th, 2008 by kapoor

It is apparent that retirement hasn’t been that easy for the former Aussie keeper, Adam Gilchrist. From the looks of it, the keeper and the game’s most destructive batsman can’t stop himself from raising one ungrounded point after another. First, he was questioning the sporting spirit of Sachin Tendulkar and what happened? The Aussie media itself and some major sporting channels started displaying pictures of what had actually happened during the infamous Sydney test. Realising that his theory had no takers, Gilly turned head-over-heels on his opinion and apologised to Tendulkar. Then, he created some sort of concoction that combined the happenings of that Sydney test match and his retirement.

If he is to be believed, it wasn’t his age but the way in which the match was played and the method in which the Indians conducted themselves that led him to announce his retirement from the game. Guess what happened? Gilly realised that not many people believed him and he again did a U-turn and somehow twisted his views into a sympathy-gaining forum by stating that he was apologetic for falsely claiming Dravid’s wicket during that test match. Now, the ‘Mouth from the South’ — that is what some people are calling him, has come up with another tale of supposed cricketing injustice.

According to him, the media and the ICC has been too lenient on Muralitharan. He believes that the ace spinner’s action is flawed beyond doubt, indirectly suggesting that Murali throws the ball rather than delivering it legally. Don’t be surprised if in a few days from now, Gilly goes back on his views and claims that Murali is the greatest spinner in the world and deserves every bit of appreciation he has got. Just reading these things suggest that hanging up his gloves hasn’t been too kind on Gilchrist’s mental faculties. Rather than trying to attract some sort of attention towards himself in this pathetic fashion, Gilly needs a psychiatrist, a good one. May be someone who can actually explain if these problems are endemic to the Australian dressing room only?

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  1. ajanta Says:

    totally agree with you there.. Gilchrist is probably missing cricket and all the limelight that comes with being a cricket celebrity. He is aching to get media’s attention in other ways now that he is an ex-cricketer. I do sympathise with him if he left cricket because he can’t stand the mental games that Aussies play. Lets hope he recovers well from that.

  2. jatanr Says:

    yeah … it could also be a case of the Aussies trying their best to unsettle the Indians in order to win (or draw) the current test series. He may have been instructed to say all this by the current Aussie cricket administration. We all know what lengths the Aussies can go to win.

  3. kapoor Says:

    along with missing the game, he is also tried to upsell a book of his. looks like he has sought the help of such cheap tactics to make sure it is a commercial success.

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