If after all these years we are not too sure about his keeping skills than it does tell us something. I have said it before and will say it again that Kamran Akmal has single-handedly lost matches/series for Pakistan.
Thanks to Adam Gilchrist, cricket fans have developed this criteria that wicket keepers have to be specialist batsmen level players which should not be the case.
How would you feel if someone would tell you that lets use this XYZ player as your main strike bowler eventhough we arel not sure about his bowler skills but yes there is a batting potential?
The bottom line is that a player is if no use if he is not able to fullfil his main purpose in the team and has failed his fellow teammates and his team on several occasions. The main purpose of a batsman is to bat, a bowler is to bowl and a wicket keeper is to keep.
Agreed. Yes, the curse of Adam Gilchrist to the cricket world. The keeper's main job is to keep wicket and takes catches and make catches out of half chances.