Adam Gilchrist flies in Perth © Getty Images

Viv Richards tells the Sydney Morning Herald’s Alex Brown how Adam Gilchrist’s 57-ball century woke him up in the middle of a December night.

"Someone said to me that he was going great guns. It was very special. Things like that I love to see. You could say that I had a bad year in terms of holding onto records.

"I loved that innings from Gilly … Doing what he did, scoring one of the fastest hundreds, at a time when you're at your lowest and not in the best of form, it goes to show you what he's about. He's a powerful player. It's not the ability, it's how mentally strong you are. He is a mentally strong guy to overcome what he did.”

Chloe Saltau writes in The Age about the regrets of Michael Bevan, who retired on Wednesday.