Mathew Hayden Made A Quick Retirement

Posted on January 14, 2009
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Matthew Hayden Retires

Matthew Hayden Retires

One of the Australia’s Greatest batsman Mathew Hayden called stumps on January 13th(2009).The 37-year old powerfully built batsman will be remembered as one of the modern-day cricketing titans,amassing 8,625 runs in 103 tests at an impressive average of 50.73.The Australian team is struggling nowadays as they lost two matches in succession against South Africa and Hayden is also struggling from scoring runs in recent matches which made him to quit from the international cricket.

Mathew Hayden scored 380 runs against Zimbabwe in an inning in Perth in October 2003 which stands only  second to Brian Lara’s world record 400 not out as the highest individual inning in test cricket.Justin Langer and Mathew Hayden ranked second for the combined runs of 5,654 to the legendary west Indian opening pair Gordon Greenidge and Desmond Haynes who scored 6,482 runs in the test cricket.

Hayden played 161 One Day Internationals for his country and also played two world cups,in South Africa in 2003 and in the West Indies in 2007.Tributes came to Hayden from the cricketers around the globe.Australian skipper Ponting didn’t hesitated to say that Hayden is the Australia’s greatest opener of all time and McGrath said that Hayden is one of the lagend in the cricket.

Hayden’s career at a Glance

Tests           ODIs               T20

Matches            103              161                9

Innings              184              155                9

Not Outs           14                15                  3

Runs                  8625            6133             308

High score         380             181*              73*

Average             50.73          43.80            51.33

Strike Rate        60.10          78.96            143.92

100s                  30                10                 0

50s                    29                36                 4

Catches            128               68                 1

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