The Nightwatchman

There is a comfortable story Australians tell themselves about wicketkeeping greatness: the lineage runs from Rod Marsh to Ian Healy, then to Adam Gilchrist, each pushing the craft a little further forward. That tale is tidy, testosterone-scented, and largely true -until you examine the modern game and discover that the most transformative Healy is not the one who barked “Bowling, Shane!” into stump mics, but the one who smashed conventions, records, and ceilings across forma

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That shouldn't have happened. It couldn't have happened. It was never supposed to happen. But at the time of writing it has just finished...