 Gilchrist voted Australia's greatest ODI player
14th Nov 2007 13:01 IST
Agencies
Adam Gilchrist pipped legendary Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting to receive the honour of Australia's greatest ever one-day international cricketer after securing highest number of votes in a players' poll.
Australian Cricketers' Association (ACA) in collaboration with Cricket Australia had invited all 163 players, who have represented Australia in one-day cricket, to vote.
"In total, 110 players took the opportunity to vote and Gilchrist topped the chart with 38 per cent of votes followed by Ponting (19 percent) and Steve Waugh (14 percent)," a Cricket Australia press release said today.
Gilchrist received the honour at an ACA function at Bellerive Oval in Hobart today and described the moment as unbelievable.
"To be given this enormous honour by my peers is unbelievably humbling and ranks highly amongst the accolades I have received over my career," Gilchrist said.
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