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Brad Haddin's 5 best catches for Australia

Haadin announced his retirement from international cricket earlier todayAustralia’s Brad Haddin announced his retirement from Test and first-class cricket earlier today, thus bringing down curtains on a fulfilling international career. Having spent the early part of his career under the shadows of Adam Gilchrist, arguably the greatest wicketkeeper-batsman to have played the game, Haddin seized his opportunity once Gilchrist retired to establish himself as Australia’s first choice for more than 7 years. The above is best exemplified by the fact that Haddin made his Test debut only in 2008, seven years after his ODI debut. In all, the 37-year-old played 66 Tests, 126 ODIs and 34 T20s for Australia. He has accounted for 270 dismissals in Test cricket, the sixth most by any wicketkeeper and the fourth most by an Australian after Gilchrist, Ian Healy and Rodney Marsh. His dismissals/innings ratio of 2.109 is only slightly behind Gilchrist (2.178), the only player ahead of Haddin in this stat (more than 100 dismissals).Haddin’s ODI dismissals count stands at 181, the third most for an Australian after Gilchrist and Healy. The dismissals/innings ratio of 1.573 is behind, yet again, behind only Gilchrist (1.679) among wicketkeepers with more than 100 dismissals to their name.Haddin might not match Gilly’s batting exploits, but the New South Wales player was more than a match to his more illustrious compatriot in terms of glove work. He has taken some brilliant catches in his career and here is a look at 5 of Haddin’s best catches.   

#1 India\'s tour of Australia, 2013-14, 3rd Test

Australia headed into the Boxing Day Test match against India at the Melbourne Cricket Ground having won the first two matches. The visitors had given the Australians a run for their money in both the matches and looked solid, especially in the batting department.

Cheteshwar Pujara had gotten starts in each of his four outings prior to this match and the first innings at the MCG was no different. Pujara had developed a 53-run partnership for the 2nd wicket with Murali Vijay as India looked to get close to Australia’s daunting total of 530.

Pujara’s stay at the crease came to an end at 25 however as Haddin dived full-stretch to his right taking a blinder off the air just ahead of Shane Watson who was fielding at first slip after Pujara had edged the delivery off Ryan Harris. Making the effort even more special was the fact that this was Haddin’s 250th Test dismissal. 

 

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