Adam Gilchrist was an Australian cricketer born in 1971 in Bellingen, New South Wales. He played international cricket for Australia as a left-handed batsman and wicketkeeper from 1999 to 2008, and is considered one of the greatest wicketkeeper-batsmen in cricket history. Some of his achievements include being named the ICC ODI Player of the Year in 2003 and 2004, holding records for the most sixes and second-fastest century in Test cricket, and being the holder of the second most Test dismissals and centuries by a wicketkeeper.