matthew hayden Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
matthew hayden is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Matthew Lawrence Hayden
Born
October 29, 1971, Kingaroy, Queensland
Age
52 years old
Nicknames
Haydos
Batting Style
Left hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Opening Batter
Height
1.88 m
Other
Administrator
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 103 | 161 | 9 | 32 |
Inn | 184 | 155 | 9 | 32 |
Runs | 8625 | 6133 | 308 | 1107 |
Avg | 50.74 | 43.81 | 51.33 | 36.9 |
SR | 60.11 | 78.96 | 143.93 | 137.52 |
HS | 380 | 181 | 73 | 93 |
NO | 14 | 15 | 3 | 2 |
100s | 30 | 10 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 29 | 36 | 4 | 8 |
4s | 1049 | 636 | 37 | 121 |
6s | 82 | 87 | 13 | 44 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 103 | 161 | 9 | 32 |
Inn | 3 | 1 | - | - |
Balls | 54 | 6 | - | - |
Runs | 40 | 18 | - | - |
Wkt | 0 | 0 | - | - |
BBI | 7 / 0 | 18 / 0 | - | - |
BBM | 7 / 0 | 18 / 0 | - | - |
Eco | 4.44 | 18.0 | - | - |
Avg | 0.0 | 0.0 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- Australia
- Brisbane Heat
- Chennai Super Kings
- Hampshire
- ICC World XI
- Northamptonshire
- Queensland
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
It didn't begin all that well for Hayden though, as far as his international career is concerned. Having made his debut in 1993, he remained mostly on the fringes over the next few years due to the extreme competition in the Australian side. He did get the odd game in between but neither did anything sensational nor got the long run a new player needs to justify himself. Consequently, he got booted from the side and after reworking himself tremendously in the domestic circuit, roared back to contention in the 2000-01 season. Although his comeback to the national side was again hardly anything to talk about, he got that breakthrough series he was desperately looking for - the tour of India in 2001.
On the spinning pitches of India, Hayden dictated terms with aplomb, using the sweep shot with such ease that it put extreme pressure on India's slow bowlers. It was a fantastic series overall as the hosts came from behind to win it and there were several star performers like VVS Laxman, Rahul Dravid and the young turk Harbhajan Singh. However, Hayden shone even brighter, considering that these were alien conditions for him and yet, he reigned supreme, looking unshakable most of the times. Such was his domination that he even earned a recall to the ODI side during the same tour. Till before that trip, the southpaw was considered mainly for Tests but this series proved everyone wrong and since then, he became one of Australia's powerful weapons at the top of the order.
Hayden was the epitome of brawn meets brain and the result was there for all to see. Although at times, he did have a weakness to the moving ball especially when the pacers bowled from round the wicket. Nevertheless, as a whole, he was a terrific package and the nature of his strokeplay meant that the Aussies were more often than not, off the blocks very quickly. He formed a devastating partnership with Adam Gilchrist in ODIs and Justin Langer in Tests - both of which were iconic to Australia's success. Hayden even broke Lara's long-standing record for the individual score in Tests (375) by hammering 380 against Zimbabwe, only for the West Indian to reclaim it with a 400* against England in the same season. Nevertheless, Hayden still holds the Australian record and it's also still the second highest.
Australia's World Cup titles in 2003 and 2007 which helped them complete a hat-trick of trophies, had Hayden's stamp on it, particularly in the latter tournament where he was just unstoppable. Even in Ashes contests, he reigned supreme, especially at home while having moderate returns on the England tours. After enduring a tough 2008-09 season where he was also dropped from the team, Hayden announced his international retirement in 2009 although he continued to feature in the IPL. He was pivotal to the Chennai Super Kings' success, replicating the role he had in Australian colors with the same finesse. The franchise won the title twice in 2010 and 2011 with Hayden being key to the success. Finally in 2012, the big Queenslander called it quits from all forms of the sport. Thereafter, he has been an active TV commentator.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Strength was Matthew Hayden's strength - both mental and physical. It enabled him to shrug off years of carping that he was technically too limited for Test cricket because of the way he played around his front pad, and it enabled him to touch rarefied heights of batsmanship. Before his maiden first-class innings, he asked if anyone had made 200 on debut, then went out and hit 149. The runs rarely abated over the next 17 years. Tall, powerful and equipped with concentration befitting the fisherman and surfer that he is, he battered the ball at and through the off side for days at a time. He has also made himself a fine catcher in the slips and gully.
Hayden's earliest Tests were exclusively against South Africa and West Indies, a trial for any opener. They were not auspicious, but patience and willpower won the day, especially after the tour of India in 2000-01, where he slog-swept his way to 549 runs, an Australian record for a three-Test series. By the end of 2001 he had broken Bob Simpson's Australian mark for most Test runs in a calendar year - Ricky Ponting first topped Hayden's 1391 in 2003 - and formed a prodigiously prolific opening partnership with Justin Langer. Belatedly he came good in the one-day arena too, and by the time the 2003 World Cup rolled around he was ranked among the top three batsmen in both forms of the game. Later that year he hammered 380 against Zimbabwe at Perth, briefly borrowing the Test record from Brian Lara, and in mid-2004 he was at it again, battering Sri Lanka for twin centuries that took his tally to 20 in only 55 Tests.
Weary through years of plunder and a difficult India tour, Hayden experienced an extended slump during 2004-05 and was initially replaced as one-day opener by Michael Clarke. His lack of form and footwork continued against England and his disastrous series only improved at The Oval with 138. It was the awkward beginning of a resurgence that extended his career and thrust him towards more middle-aged domination. Usually playing more patiently, he followed his south London renaissance with three hundreds in successive matches, becoming the third player next to Bradman and Barrington to score four in a row twice, and passed 1000 runs in a calendar year for the fifth time. After reaching three figures on five occasions during 2005-06 and adding 153 at the MCG a year later, he stood behind only Bradman, Ponting and Waugh on Australia's list of century-makers. With three hundreds in consecutive games against India in 2007-08, he quickly leapfrogged Bradman's 29, and had 30 when he waved goodbye.
Regaining the Ashes in 2006-07 brought tears to Hayden's eyes and he was also saddened when Langer retired at the end of the series, although his mood lifted when he won back his one-day place. In the final match of the 2006-07 Chappell-Hadlee series he thumped an Australian-record 181 off 166 balls, which included ten sixes, and showed his impressive power. More muscle was on display at the World Cup as he averaged 73.22 in scoring 659 runs, the most at the tournament, and he later revealed he was carrying a fractured toe and a broken bone in his other foot. A frightening 66-ball century against South Africa earned him honorary St Kitts citizenship and the outdoors man completed a dream trip by scoring another two hundreds, hooking a 136kg marlin and winning the World Cup for a second time.
A year later he was back in the Caribbean only briefly, returning home without playing a Test due to an Achilles injury suffered during training while on Indian Premier League duty. Australia's top order lost strength without him, just as it had when India ended the 16-match winning streak at the WACA. He had been keen to push on until the 2009 Ashes, but disappointing displays in the lost series against India and South Africa in 2008-09 prompted him to announce his retirement after the Sydney Test. And with that, he was gone.
Cricinfo staff 2009