Matthew Hayden

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Matthew Hayden
Australia
Personal information
Full name	Matthew Lawrence Hayden
Nickname	Haydos, Unit
Born	29 October 1971 (1971-10-29) (age 36)
	Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Role	Batsman
Batting style	Left-hand
Bowling style	Right-arm medium
International information
Test debut (cap 359)	4 March 1994: v South Africa
Last Test	24 January 2008: v India
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 -	Queensland
1997	Hampshire
1999 - 2000	Northamptonshire
2008 -	Chennai Super Kings
Career statistics
	Tests	ODIs	FC	List A
Matches	94	161	285	307
Runs scored	8,242	6,133	24,186	12,045
Batting average	53.51	43.80	53.74	44.77
100s/50s	30/27	10/36	79/98	27/67
Top score	380	181*	380	181*
Balls bowled	54	6	1,097	339
Wickets	-	-	17	10
Bowling average	-	-	39.47	35.80
5 wickets in innings	-	-	-	-
10 wickets in match	-	-	-	n/a
Best bowling	-	-	3/10	2/16
Catches/stumpings	121/–	68/–	289/–	129/–
As of 5 March 2008 Source: cricinfo.com

Matthew Lawrence Hayden was born on 29 October 1971 in Kingaroy, Queensland to Laurence and Moya Hayden. He was educated at Marist College in Ashgrove and he is an Australian and Queensland cricketer.

Hayden (nicknames: Haydos, Unit) is a powerful and aggressive left hand opening batsman, known for his ability to score quickly at both Test and one day levels. He is particularly proficient when hitting down the ground. 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, and in ODI cricket with Adam Gilchrist, and is currently partnered with Phil Jaques as an opener in the Australian Test team.

[edit] Cricket career

[edit] Test career

Hayden debuted for the Australian team in the 1994 March 4-8^th test match against South Africa in Johannesburg, scoring 15 and 5 ^[2]. After this Test his next Test selection was in the 1996/7 season, with 3 tests each against the West Indies and South Africa. Although he made his debut century (125 against WI in Adelaide) his average of 21.7 was not enough to keep his position in a star-packed Australian side, and in particular openers Mark Taylor and Michael Slater. He was dropped from the team, and it appeared his international career was over.

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 1999/2000 tour of New Zealand. In the subsequent 2000/1 tour of India he averaged a Bradmanesque 109.80 with 539 runs from the 3 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 5. He currently has 30 test centuries to his name, the first left handed opening batsman to achieve this feat.

In 2001 he scored a then Australian record of 1391 runs in Test matches in one calendar year, and subsequently won the Allan Border Medal as the best Australian player of the year. Hayden scored over 1000 Test runs in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005, the first man to achieve the feat five times. Hayden was selected as one of Wisden's five 2003 Cricketers of the Year. He briefly held the world record for the highest Test score, 380, which he scored at the WACA against Zimbabwe on 10 October 2003. Brian Lara of the West Indies reclaimed the record with 400 not out against England on April 12, 2004. Of note, at the commencement of 2006 he had the fourth highest conversion rate (Test centuries scored per Test played) in history, behind only Don Bradman and George Headley.

Despite these achievements, Hayden has received criticism from some quarters for being a "flat-track bully". These critics have contrasted his ability to score big runs on great batting pitches with how he was troubled during the 2005 Ashes by the less batsman-friendly English conditions. Against an admittedly high quality swing and pace attack - the "fantastic foursome" of Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Andrew Flintoff and Simon Jones - he averaged a meagre 35.33 across the 5 match series. Hayden's defenders point out that he was not alone in finding England tough-going as even Australia's captain and talisman - Ricky Ponting - averaged under 40, whilst other big names such as Adam Gilchrist and Damien Martyn failed to impress with averages near 20.

He has also been a regular slip fielder for Australia and has taken the 13th most catches by non-wicketkeepers in test history. He also shares the record for the most catches by a non-wicketkeeper in a test match with seven catches against Sri Lanka in 2004. His most notable fielding partnership has been with Shane Warne, with the caught Hayden, bowled Warne dismissal being the equal third most common partnership for a non-wicketkeeper with 39 wickets, behind caught Taylor, bowled Warne and caught Dravid, bowled Kumble.

[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 ^[3]. 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. 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 will play for the Chennai outfit Chennai Super Kings in the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) commencing in April 2008.

[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] Controversies

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 charges against Harbhajan Singh.

As a fall out 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 fight, during an interview aired on Brisbane radio station, he was also heard to mimic Sharmas indian accent in this exchange.^[4].

He was reprimanded for his comment by Cricket Australia,^[5] but maintained his innocence.^[6].

[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. ^[7]

• 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.

• Hayden uses 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. ^[8]

• Hayden's favourite food is seafood.

• 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). ^[9]

• Hayden is a devout Roman Catholic and says "When I’m in trouble, I ask: ‘What would Christ do?'" ^[10]

[edit] Test Centuries

[edit] One Day International Centuries

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Hayden's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

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v • d • e Australia squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup (4th title) 8 Clark • 11 McGrath • 14 Ponting (c) • 17 Hodge • 18 Gilchrist • 23 Clarke • 25 Johnson • 28 Hayden • 31 Hogg • 32 Tait • 33 Watson • 48 Hussey • 57 Haddin • 58 Lee • 59 Bracken • 63 Symonds • Coach: Buchanan Brett Lee was named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by Stuart Clark

v • d • e Australia squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup (3rd title) 1 Ponting • 2 Gilchrist • 3 Bevan • 4 Bichel • 5 Bracken • 6 Gillespie • 7 Harvey • 8 Hauritz • 9 Hayden • 10 Hogg • 11 Lee • 12 Lehmann • 13 Maher • 14 Martyn • 15 McGrath • 16 Symonds • 17 Warne • 18 Watson • Coach: Buchanan Jason Gillespie, Shane Warne and Shane Watson were named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament