Matthew Hayden
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| Personal information | ||||
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| Full name | Matthew Lawrence Hayden | |||
| Born | 29 October 1971 Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia | |||
| Nickname | Haydos, Unit, Matt the Bat | |||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||
| Batting style | Left-hand | |||
| Bowling style | Right-arm trundler medium | |||
| Role | Batsman | |||
| International information | ||||
| National side | Australia | |||
| Test debut (cap 359) | 4 March 1994 v South Africa | |||
| Last Test | 3 January 2009 v South Africa | |||
| ODI debut (cap 111) | 19 May 1993 v England | |||
| Last ODI | 4 March 2008 v India | |||
| ODI shirt no. | 28 | |||
| Domestic team information | ||||
| Years | Team | |||
| 1991–2009 | Queensland | |||
| 1997 | Hampshire | |||
| 1999–2000 | Northamptonshire | |||
| 2008 – | Chennai Super Kings | |||
| Career statistics | ||||
| Competition | Test | ODIs | FC | List A |
| Matches | 103 | 161 | 295 | 308 |
| Runs scored | 8,625 | 6,133 | 24,603 | 12,051 |
| Batting average | 50.73 | 43.80 | 52.57 | 44.63 |
| 100s/50s | 30/29 | 10/36 | 79/100 | 27/67 |
| Top score | 380 | 181* | 380 | 181* |
| Balls bowled | 54 | 6 | 1,097 | 339 |
| Wickets | 0 | 0 | 17 | 10 |
| Bowling average | – | – | 39.47 | 35.80 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 wickets in match | 0 | n/a | 0 | n/a |
| Best bowling | 0/7 | 0/18 | 3/10 | 2/16 |
| Catches/stumpings | 128/– | 68/– | 296/– | 129/– |
| Source: CricketArchive, 17 January 2009 | ||||
Hayden currently holds the record for the highest scores made by an Australian batsman in both the Test (380) and One Day International (181 not out) arenas.[1] He formed one of the most prolific opening partnerships in world Test cricket for Australia with Justin Langer,[2] and in ODI cricket with Adam Gilchrist. Upon his retirement, in January 2009, Hayden's Test average was 50.7; he had scored the second most runs in Test Cricket by an opening batsman; and was equal 6th (with Jacques Kallis) on the all-time list for Test centuries.
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[edit] Cricket career
[edit] Test career
Hayden made his debut for the Australian team in the 1994 March 4–8 Test Match against South Africa in Johannesburg, scoring 15 and 5.[3] His next Test selection was in the 1996–97 season, with three each against the West Indies and South Africa. He made his debut century (125 against WI in Adelaide) aided by multiple dropped catches by the West Indies side. His average of 21.7 was not enough to keep his position in the Australian side, and in particular openers Mark Taylor and Matthew Elliott. He was dropped from the team, and it appeared his international career was over, compared occasionally to that of Graeme Hick, a fine domestic performer with not quite enough to make it at the highest level.During these years, Hayden was a prolific batsman for the Queensland first-class cricket team. Weight of domestic cricket runs, and persistence, resulted in a resurrection of his international career for the 1999-00 tour of New Zealand. In the subsequent 2000–01 tour of India, he averaged a Bradmanesque 109.80, with 549 runs, an Australian record for a three-Test series. Since then, he has been an automatic selection for the Test side. In the 2007–08 series against India, Hayden scored three centuries, raising his tally of centuries against India to five. He currently has thirty test centuries to his name, the first left-handed opening batsman to achieve this feat.
In 2001, Hayden scored a then-Australian record of 1,391 runs in Test matches in one calendar year, and subsequently won the Allan Border Medal as the best Australian player of the year. He picked up where he left off the following season with a seven-hour 119 against Pakistan in the Sharjah heat, which approached 50 degrees celsius.
He scored over 1,000 Test runs in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, the first man to achieve the feat five times. He was selected as one of Wisden's five 2003 Cricketers of the Year, and briefly held the world record for the highest Test score, 380, which he reached at the WACA against Zimbabwe on 10 October 2003, having batted only five sessions.[4] As of July 2008, Hayden had the third-highest conversion-rate in history, with a Test century every 3.13 Tests played, behind only Don Bradman at 1.79, and Clyde Walcott at 2.93.[5]
Despite these achievements, Hayden suffered a considerable form-slump towards the end of 2004. This continued into the highly anticipated 2005 Ashes, where Hayden averaged a meagre 35.33 across the five-match series. While he was not alone among the Australian batsman in finding England tough-going in 2005, the string of poor performances cast doubt on Hayden's cricketing future. With his Test spot under pressure going into the Fifth Test at the Oval, Hayden rescued his career with a hard-fought 138 from 303 balls. His 21st Test century signalled a return to form for Hayden for the Australian season of 2005/06, scoring three centuries in three consecutive Tests against the ICC World XI and West Indies. Hayden scored one century during the Boxing Day Test against South Africa, and another in the away series in South Africa played in March 2006.
Hayden played in the highly-anticipated 2006-07 Ashes series, against England. He failed to reach 40 in the first three innings of the series, but again returned to form with scores of 92 in Perth, and 153 in the Boxing Day Test. The century at Melbourne continued Hayden's rich vein of form at the MCG, being his fifth in eight Tests there.
Hayden has been a regular and successful slip fielder for Australia through his career, and has taken the thirteenth-most catches by a non-wicketkeeper in Test history. He also shares the record for the most catches by a non-wicketkeeper in a single Test Match, with seven against Sri Lanka in 2004. His most notable fielding partnership was with Shane Warne, with the "caught Hayden, bowled Warne" dismissal being the equal third most common partnership for a non-wicketkeeper and bowler: their 39 wickets are behind only "caught Taylor, bowled Warne" and "caught Dravid, bowled Kumble".
Hayden's most notable opening batting partner was Justin Langer. The opening pair represented Australia in more than 100 Test innings.[6] The pair made 5654 runs while batting together in partnerships, with an average of 51 runs per partnership; only Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes of the West Indies have scored more Test runs as a partnership, with 6,482.[7]
[edit] ODI
Hayden also played in the Australian side that won the 2003 One Day International Cricket World Cup. He was dropped from the ODI squad because of poor form after The Ashes in 2005, though he could not be kept away from the ODI squad for long. He returned to the Australian squad in the 2006–07 Australian season after Simon Katich fell out of favour and Shane Watson was injured. He dominated the Cricket World Cup in the West Indies as the tournament's best batsman in 2007, scoring three centuries before the completion of the Super 8s section of the tournament.On 20 February 2007, Matthew Hayden posted his highest ODI score (181 not out) against New Zealand at Seddon Park in Hamilton. Australia posted 346 for 5 wickets and New Zealand replied with 350 for 9 wickets and won the Chappel-Hadlee series 3-0.
Hayden hit another milestone against the Kiwis when he become only the third person (the others being Mark Waugh and Sourav Ganguly) to hit 3 centuries (101 vs RSA, 158 vs WI, 103 vs NZ) in a single World Cup tournament on 20 April 2007. The century against South Africa came off just 66 balls and is the fastest World Cup ton ever beating the previous record set by John Davison.[8] The Prime Minister of St Kitts and Nevis awarded Hayden with honorary citizenship after the match.
Hayden also became only the second player in World Cup history to surpass 600 runs in a single tournament. He needed to score a further 52 runs to equal the record that was set by Sachin Tendulkar in the previous World Cup but fell short by 14 runs. He ended the tournament with 659 runs at an average of 73.22.
In September 2007, Hayden was named ODI Player of the Year after his dominating performance throughout the World Cup.[9] An extraordinary performance considering his place in the Australian side was in jeopardy during the Australian VB Series against England and New Zealand. He officially holds the record for being the top runs scorer in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, scoring 265 runs in the whole tournament.
Matthew Hayden played for the Chennai outfit Chennai Super Kings in the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) in April 2008. After a poor run of form in the Test arena during 2008, Hayden was dropped from the ODI and Twenty20 squad in January 2009.[10]
[edit] England County
Hayden has played in the English County Championship, first with Hampshire in 1997 and prominently as captain of Northamptonshire in 1999–2000.[edit] Indian Premier League
Hayden has become one of the foremost players in the Indian Premier League. He was contracted by the Chennai Super Kings team for $375,000. He made the most amount of runs, 572, allowing him to win the Orange Cap in the 2009 series. On March 11, 2010, Hayden announced his intention to use the Mongoose Cricket Bat, a bat specially tailored to the needs of Twenty20 cricket, during the 2010 IPL. Reactions to the bat were mixed.Stuart Law said that he would think 'twice' before using the Mongoose,while MS Dhoni said in his column that he believed in Hayden's ability 'no matter what means he uses'. After a quiet start to the third edition of the IPL,Hayden made a blistering 93 of 43 deliveries to kickstart his campaign.[11][edit] Controversies
In the 2003 New Year's Test in Sydney against England, Hayden smashed a pavilion window in anger, after disagreeing with an umpire's decision to give him out. He was fined for this incident.He was a party to the controversy that emerged from the Second Test, 2007-08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy racism charges pressed by Australia against India, and was one of the witnesses for Andrew Symonds's charges against Harbhajan Singh.
As a fallout of that instance in February 2008, Hayden was charged for a code of conduct violation by Cricket Australia, for calling the Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh an obnoxious little weed, and for inviting Indian fast bowler Ishant Sharma for a boxing bout, during an interview aired on Brisbane radio station; he was also heard to mimic Sharma's Indian accent in this exchange.[12]
He was reprimanded for his comment by Cricket Australia,[13] but maintained his innocence.[14]
He was strongly criticized by the BCCI and former Pakistan team captain Wasim Akram for reportedly calling India a third world country.[15] Back home after a 2–0 series defeat by India, Hayden spoke about what he perceived to be poor ground conditions and inordinate delays during the matches "that happen in Third World countries".[16] However, Hayden defended his remarks.[17]
[edit] Retirement
On 13 January 2009, Hayden held a press conference at The Gabba and officially announced his retirement from representative cricket.[18] The announcement followed a series of relatively poor performances in New Zealand and South Africa's tour of Australia, in which he failed to pass fifteen runs in nine innings.[19] While many in the Australian media had been calling for Hayden to either retire or be dropped, the response to his retirement was mostly one of pensive commemoration. Paying tribute on his retirement, Hayden was hailed by teammates Ricky Ponting[20] and Justin Langer as being the greatest ever opener from Australia.[21] Hayden was recognised as statistically the best opener ever produced by the country.[22][edit] Other
Hayden has also been working with Cricket Australia in raising the profile of cricket among the indigenous population of Australia. In 2010 he captained the Indigenous All-stars XI against the ACA Masters XI as part of the Imparja Cup held in Alice Springs, Northern Territory. Hayden is also an Ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation (www.aief.com.au)The Australian version of The Lifestyle Channel began screening Matthew Hayden's Home Ground in June 2010.
[edit] Personal life
- In 2000, Hayden's boat capsized whilst sailing near North Stradbroke Island; he and his two companions (one of whom was Queensland and Australian teammate Andrew Symonds) were forced to swim a kilometre to safety.[23] Hayden subsequently appeared in a campaign promoting marine safety.[24]
- In his spare time, Hayden is a keen cook and occasionally prepares meals for his team-mates while on tour. A collection of his recipes was published in Australia in 2004 as The Matthew Hayden Cookbook. A second book, The Matthew Hayden Cookbook 2, was published in 2006.
- Prior to using a Mongoose, Hayden used a Gray-Nicolls bat with a fluorescent pink grip, to highlight and support research into a cure for breast cancer. This is at least in part inspired by his team-mate Glenn McGrath's wife struggle with this illness.[25]
- He is married to Kellie Hayden (née Culey), and they have a daughter named Grace (born June 2002), and two sons named Joshua (born 15 April 2005) and Thomas Joseph (born May 2007).[26]
- Hayden is a devout Roman Catholic and says "When I’m in trouble, I ask: ‘What would Christ do?'" and he crosses himself after reaching a century.[27]
- He is patron of Parent Project Australia, a charity fighting for a cure for duchenne muscular dystrophy
- Hayden was an Ambassador for World Youth Day 2008.
- Hayden was awarded the Australian Sports Medal on 14 July 2000.[28]
- On 26 January 2010 he was appointed an Member of the Order of Australia for service to cricket, and to the community through support for a range of health, youth and charitable organisations.[29]
[edit] Test Centuries
[edit] One Day International Centuries
| Matthew Hayden's One Day International Centuries | ||||||
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| Runs | Match | Against | City/Country | Venue | Year | |
| [1] | 111 | 22 | India | Vishakapatnam, India | Indira Priyadarshini Stadium | 2001 |
| [2] | 146 | 38 | Pakistan | Nairobi, Kenya | Gymkhana Club Ground | 2002 |
| [3] | 109 | 84 | Sri Lanka | Brisbane, Australia | Brisbane Cricket Ground | 2004 |
| [4] | 126 | 89 | India | Sydney, Australia | Sydney Cricket Ground | 2004 |
| [5] | 114 | 110 | New Zealand | Christchurch, New Zealand | AMI Stadium | 2005 |
| [6] | 117 | 127 | New Zealand | Perth, Australia | WACA Ground | 2007 |
| [7] | 181* | 134 | New Zealand | Hamilton, New Zealand | Westpac Park | 2007 |
| [8] | 101 | 137 | South Africa | Basseterre, St. Kitts | Warner Park Stadium | 2007 |
| [9] | 158 | 138 | West Indies | North Sound, Antigua and Barbuda | Sir Vivian Richards Stadium | 2007 |
| [10] | 103 | 143 | New Zealand | Grenada | Queen's Park, Grenada | 2007 |
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| Preceded by Steve Waugh | Allan Border Medal winner 2002 | Succeeded by Adam Gilchrist |
