Brad Haddin

An exceptional keeper, Brad Haddin was a former Australian wicket-keeper batsman who was also known to be a team man may not have exceptionally appealing numbers to portray his international career but his success in cricket has been at the highest level.

Haddin made his ODI debut in 2001 but had to wait another three years to get another game. He was on the sidelines as Australia lifted the World Cup in 2007, but, with Adam Gilchrist approaching retirement, Haddin won a spot in the side. 

The wicketkeeper-batsman had to wait until he was 30 to finally step on the ground for a Test clash, after Adam Gilchrist’s retirement. On his Test debut against West Indies, Brad Haddin broke his finger but continued to fulfil his responsibility as the keeper. He kept on taking ball after ball from Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee and his determination became a career-defining moment for him and he continued throughout the series with an injured finger. 

Fourth on the list for most dismissals by an Australian wicketkeeper in Test matches Brad Haddin has a total of 270 scalps. Haddin was unsuccessful in the Ashes series, where he featured in five series only winning just one. However, a man for the big occasions, he was one of the most important parts of Australia’s 5-0 whitewash of England two seasons ago topping the charts with a batting average of 61.63. He finished with a world record of 29 dismissals in a series.

The New South Wales cricketerwas a part of three ICC Cricket World Cups in which he was on the winning side twice, the latest one came in 2015 which was the finals of the World Cup and also his final ODI. He announced retirement after a brilliant campaign in the prestigious tournament. However another break from cricket, this time during the 2015 Ashes series, eventually did bring about the end of Haddin’s international career. Five years after his retirement, he was named as the assistant coach of the Sunrisers Hyderabad led by Trevor Bayliss.

(As of April 2021)