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| Full name | Matthew Lawrence Hayden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1971-10-29)29 October 1971 (age 54)[1] Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Haydos, Unit | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Left-handed | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm fast-medium | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Opening batsman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | https://www.matthewhayden.com/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20I debut (cap 13) | 13 June 2005 v England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last T20I | 20 October 2007 v India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1991/92–2007/08 | Queensland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Hampshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Northamptonshire | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2010 | Chennai Super Kings | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011/12 | Brisbane Heat | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Matthew Lawrence HaydenAM (born 29 October 1971) is an Australian cricket commentator and formercricketer. His playing career spanned fifteen years. Hayden was a powerful and aggressive left-handedopening batsman who, along with opening partnersJustin Langer andAdam Gilchrist, contributed heavily to Australia's success during its "golden era" (2000–2008) inTest andODI (One Day International) cricket respectively. He holds the record of highest individual score by an Australian batsman inTests, having scored 380 against Zimbabwe during Zimbabwe's 2003 tour of Australia.[2] This stands as the second-highest individual score in test cricket (behindBrian Lara‘s 400*). It is the highest score by an opening batsman in Tests.[3] Hayden was a member of the Australian team that won both the2003 Cricket World Cup, and the2007 Cricket World Cup.
Domestically, Hayden played for the state he was born in, Queensland, and also played for the state'sTwenty20 (T20) competition team, the Brisbane Heat. Hayden retired from all forms of cricket in September 2012.[4] In 2017, Hayden was inducted into theAustralian Cricket Hall of Fame.[5] In September 2021, Hayden was appointed as the Batting Coach ofPakistan for the2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup.[6]
Hayden competed in theGladiator Team Sports Challenge in 1995. Hayden's boat capsized nearNorth Stradbroke Island; he and his two companions (one of whom wasQueensland and Australian teammateAndrew Symonds and the other was Trent Butler) were forced to swim a kilometre to safety.[7] Hayden subsequently appeared in a campaign promoting marine safety.[8] In his spare time, Hayden is a keen cook and occasionally prepared meals for his teammates while on tour. A collection of his recipes was published in Australia in 2004 asThe Matthew Hayden Cookbook. A second book,The Matthew Hayden Cookbook 2, was published in 2006. Prior to using a Mongoose, Hayden used aGray-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 teammateGlenn McGrath's wife, who died due to breast cancer.[9] He is married to Kellie and has three children[10]
Hayden is a devoutRoman Catholic and said, "When I’m in trouble, I ask: ‘What would Christ do?'" He also routinelycrossed himself on the field after reaching a century.[11] When asked about faith in modern society, Hayden said, "I think it’s very challenging to live as a Christian, or any sort of religion, in terms of modern day society. I think it’s very difficult as a young adult, and I think I really struggled with that over a long period of time".[12] Hayden was awarded theAustralian Sports Medal on 14 July 2000.[13] In 2009, as part of theQ150 celebrations, Matthew Hayden was announced as one of theQ150 Icons of Queensland for his role as a "sports legend".[14] On 26 January 2010 he was appointed a Member of theOrder of Australia for service to cricket, and to the community through support for a range of health, youth and charitable organisations.[15] Hayden is an Ambassador for theAustralian Indigenous Education Foundation.[16]
Hayden playedSheffield Shield cricket forQueensland, playing 101 matches, and scoring 8831 runs at an average of 54.85. He also played in theEnglishCounty Championship, first withHampshire in 1997 and prominently as captain ofNorthamptonshire in 1999–2000; his County record is 3461 runs at 55.82. Hayden's first-class career yielded 24,603 runs at an average of 52.57.
Matthew Hayden played for theChennai Super Kings in the inauguralIndian Premier League (IPL) in April 2008, contracted for $375,000. Hayden became one of the foremost players in the league, and in 2009 won the Orange Cap as the season's highest run-scorer, with 572 runs.[17]
In 2011–12, Hayden resigned from his positions on the Queensland and Australian cricket boards to take part for theBrisbane Heat in Australia'sBig Bash League.
On 11 March 2010, Hayden announced his intention to use theMongoose 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 scored 93 off 43 deliveries to kickstart his campaign.[18]
Hayden andMichael Slater were both picked for the 1993 tour of England, but Slater performed better in the tour games, and secured the opening position alongside vice-captainMark Taylor for the next few years. Hayden played a single test in the 4–8 March 1994 Test Match againstSouth Africa inJohannesburg, scoring 15 and 5, filling in for an injured Taylor.[19]
His next Test selection was in the 1996–97 season, with three tests each against theWest Indies andSouth Africa. He made his maiden century (125 against theWest Indies inAdelaide), but averaged only 24.1 over the six tests, including four ducks. He was dropped from the team, as the selectors favoured other openers, initially Taylor andMatthew Elliott, then later Slater andGreg Blewett, for the next few years. At the time, he was compared occasionally toGraeme Hick, a fine domestic performer but not quite good enough to make it at the highest level.[citation needed]
During these years, Hayden was a prolific batsman for theQueensland first-class cricket team. Weight of domestic cricketruns, and persistence, resulted in a resurrection of his international career for the 1999–2000 tour of New Zealand and the following 2000–01 summer against the West Indies. His results in those series were unconvincing, but he was still picked for the 2001 tour of India.
On that tour of India, Hayden scored 549 runs, an Australian record for a three-Test series, at an average of 109.80. Before the 2001 India tour, Hayden averaged 24.36 from 13 Tests, with one century. After that, he was an automatic selection for the Test side. 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 ofWisden's five 2003Cricketers of the Year.
In the first innings of the First Test againstZimbabwe on 10 October 2003 at theWACA, Hayden scored 380 runs from only 437 balls to set a new world record for an individual Test innings, passing the previous record ofBrian Lara (375), set in April 1994. Hayden's total remained the record until 12 April 2004, when Lara scored 400not out. As of June 2024, it remains the second-highest innings in Test history, and is the highest ever by an Australian.[20] For his performances in 2004, he was named in the World Test XI by ICC.[21]
Hayden suffered a considerable form-slump towards the end of 2004, and went for sixteen consecutive tests without scoring a century. This continued into the highly anticipated2005 Ashes, where Hayden failed to reach 40 in any of the first four tests, which put pressure on his position in the team; a hard-fought 138 from 303 balls in the Fifth Test atThe Oval arguably saved his career. This signalled a return to form for Hayden for the 2005/06 season, and he scored centuries in four consecutive Tests, including the Oval Test, then home Tests against theICC World XI and West Indies.
Hayden's form in the2006-07 Ashes series against England was average; 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. For his performances in 2006, he was again named in the World Test XI by ICC.[22]
Hayden scored 30 centuries in his 103 tests. As of January 2025, this makes him one of only four Australians to have scored more test centuries thanDon Bradman (29 centuries in 52 tests), the other three beingRicky Ponting,Steve Waugh andSteve Smith.[24] He also scored 29 half-centuries in Tests.
In 2007–2008, Hayden became the third Australian, afterDonald Bradman (four centuries in five Tests in 1947–48) andDavid Boon (three tons in five Tests in 1991–92) to register three or more hundreds in a Test series against India. For his performances in 2007, he was named in the World Test XI by ICC.
Hayden has recorded three or more centuries in successive Tests three times: 2001–02 season, he registered four centuries in successive Tests against South Africa, at Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Johannesburg; during 2005–06 with centuries against England at The Oval in 2005, against a World XI at Sydney, and against the West Indies at Brisbane and Hobart in 2005–06; and in 2007–2008 he scored three centuries in successive Tests against India.
The 2008–09 season was Hayden's final season of Test cricket. In nine Tests against India, New Zealand and South Africa, Hayden managed only 383 runs at 23.94, with two half-centuries and three ducks. His career ended when he was dropped from the ODI Australian team. Soon after Hayden announced his retirement from all international and first-class cricket prior to the tour of South Africa in 2008–09. His place was filled by young New South Wales openerPhillip Hughes. He finished his test career with 8625 runs at an average of 50.73.
Hayden's most notable opening batting partner wasJustin Langer. The opening pair represented Australia in more than 100 Test innings.[25] The pair made 5654 runs while batting together in opening partnerships, with an average of 51.88 runs per partnership; as of January 2019, onlyGordon Greenidge andDesmond Haynes of the West Indies have scored more Test runs as an opening partnership, with 6,482 at an average of 47.31.[26][27]
Hayden was a regular and successfulslip fielder for Australia, and he took 128 catches during his Test career.
Hayden played as an opening batsman in the Australian team in 160One Day Internationals throughout his career. He made his ODI debut for Australia in 1993 against England, but after playing 13 ODIs in 1993 and 1994, he was dropped from the team until 2000.
Hayden played in theAustralian side that won the2003 One Day International Cricket World Cup. He was dropped from the ODI squad because of poor form after The Ashes in 2005, but returned to the Australian squad in the 2006–07 Australian season afterSimon Katich fell out of favour andShane Watson was injured.
On 20 February 2007, Matthew Hayden posted his highest ODI score (181 not out) againstNew Zealand atSeddon Park inHamilton. It was at the time the highest ODI score ever by an Australian and gave Hayden the unique distinction of holding both the Test and ODI record scores for an Australian batsman until the ODI record was broken by Shane Watson who scored 185* in 2011.[28] His knock of 181* is the second highest ODI innings in a losing cause in ODI history just afterCharles Coventry's 194*.[29]
He dominated the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies the tournament's best batsman, scoring three centuries before the completion of the Super 8s section of the tournament; he was only the third person to achieve this feat (the previous beingMark Waugh andSourav Ganguly). The century againstSouth Africa came off just 66 balls and brokeJohn Davison's record for the fastest century in a World Cup.[30] The Prime Minister ofSt Kitts and Nevis awarded Hayden with honorary citizenship after the match. His record was broken byIrish batsmanKevin O'Brien in the2011 World Cup when he struck a century off 50 balls against England. Hayden also became only the second player in World Cup history to surpass 600 runs in a single tournament; he scored 659 runs for the tournament at an average of 73.22. In September 2007, Hayden was namedODI Player of the Year after his dominating performance throughout the World Cup. He was named in the 'Team of the Tournament' by ESPNcricinfo.[31][32] For his performances in 2007, he was named in the World ODI XI by the ICC and ESPNcricinfo.[33][34]
Hayden played only one more season of ODI cricket, his last match for Australia being the second final of the2007–08 Commonwealth Bank Series.
Hayden played nine Twenty20 Internationals for Australia, including the2007 ICC World Twenty20. He was the tournament's top scorer, with 265 runs. He scored 308 runs in T20Is with the average of 51.33 when retiring. He was named in the 'Team of the Tournament' by ESPNcricinfo for the 2007 T20I World Cup.[35]
For his performances in 2007, he was named in the World T20I XI by ESPNcricinfo.[34]
In the 2003 New Year's Test inSydney againstEngland, 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 theSecond Test, 2007-08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy racism charges pressed byAustralia againstIndia, and was one of the witnesses forAndrew Symonds's charges againstHarbhajan Singh. As a fallout of that instance in February 2008, Hayden was charged for a code of conduct violation byCricket Australia, for calling theIndianspinnerHarbhajan Singh an "obnoxious little weed", and for invitingIndianfast bowlerIshant Sharma for a boxing bout, during an interview aired on Brisbane radio station.[36] He was reprimanded for his comment by Cricket Australia,[37]but maintained his innocence.[38]
He was strongly criticised by theBCCI and former Pakistan team captainWasim Akram for reportedly calling India a third world country.[39] 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".[40] However, Hayden defended his remarks.[41]
On 13 January 2009, Hayden held a press conference atthe Gabba and officially announced his retirement from representative cricket.[4][42] The announcement followed a series of relatively poor performances inNew Zealand and South Africa's tour ofAustralia, in which he failed to pass fifteen runs in nine innings.[43] Paying tribute on his retirement, Hayden was hailed by teammatesRicky Ponting[44] and Justin Langer as being the greatest ever opener from Australia.[45] Hayden was recognised as statistically the best opener ever produced by the country.[46]
Hayden was appointed by the Queensland Government in March 2013[47] to head a tourism campaign aiming to attract more Indian tourists toAustralia.[48]
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| Test | 380 | Australia vZimbabwe | WACA, Perth | 2003[49] |
| ODI | 181* | New Zealand vAustralia | Seddon Park, Hamilton | 2007[50] |
| T20I | 73* | Australia vBangladesh | Newlands Cricket Ground, Cape Town | 2007[51] |
| FC | 380 | Australia vZimbabwe | WACA, Perth | 2003[49] |
| LA | 181* | New Zealand vAustralia | Seddon Park, Hamilton | 2007[50] |
| T20 | 93 | Delhi Daredevils vChennai Super Kings | Feroz Shah Kotla Ground, Delhi | 2010[52] |
With 30 Tests and 10 ODI centuries, Hayden is considered one of the best Australian openers of his era. He also scored 29 Test, 36 ODI and three T20I half-centuries.
Hayden has also been working withCricket Australia in raising the profile of cricket among the indigenous population ofAustralia. In 2010, he captained the Indigenous All-stars XI against the ACA Masters XI as part of the Imparja Cup held inAlice Springs,Northern Territory. Hayden is also an Ambassador of the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation.[53]
He was inducted into Australian Cricket Hall of Fame at the 2016/17 Allan Border Medal ceremony in Sydney.[1] On September 13, 2021, he was announced as a head coach ofPakistan for 2021 T20 World Cup. This was his first major coaching assignment. In September 2022, he was appointed as the Pakistan team's mentor for2022 T20 World Cup.[54]
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