At the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies, Adam Gilchrist was having a patchy tournament in the run-up to the final. He says that at the team meeting before the big day he put his hand up and admitted he hadn’t done too well. He was delighted when the team turned around and told him it didn’t matter how much he or his partner Hayden scored individually, as long as they kept giving the team good starts. It was not about Gilchrist or Hayden but about the partnership. It put him in the right frame of mind to demolish the Sri Lankans in the final with an unforgettable innings.
