Monday, January 31, 2011

AUSTRALIAN RETIRED CRICKETER MATTHEW HAYDEN'S TEST CAREER

Matthew Hayden is famous cricketer of the world. He is a master of cricket. He was born on October 29, 1971 in Kingaroy, Queensland. He is a famous Australian Cricketer. He is a leading cricketer and former batsman of an Australian team. He is a left handed batsman. He is a very powerful and a very aggressive batsman. Hayden holds the record of making a highest individual run in a test match in an inning by an Australian batsman of 380 runs. Similarly, Matthew Hayden also holds the record of making highest individual runs in One Day Internationals (ODIS) by an Australian batsman Of 181 Runs Unbeaten.

Hayden first played Cricket Australia and Australian team in the 1994 March against South Africa. In that match, he scored 15 runs in first inning and 5 runs in second inning.
In the year 1996/1997 he was selected again for a test series against West Indies and South Africa. He made his first test century against West Indies in Adelaide dropped catches by the West Indies side. But his average was not good enough to remain in Australian side so he was again dropped from Australian Team. At that time his average was only 21.8 which were not enough to remain in Australian team.
After dropping Australian side he started to play for his local side Queensland. In which he made tons of runs which made him selected again in Australian Team in 1999-2000 tour of New Zealand and again he was also selected for the tour of India in 2000-2001. In which he made 549 runs with an average of 109.82 and after that he was automatically selected for a Australian.
In the year 2001, He scored more than 1300 runs in one calendar year which was an Australian record, and after that he won a medal for the Best Australian player of the year. Similarly, he also scored 119 runs in sharjah against Pakistan. In the year 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005, Hayden scored more than 1000 Runs in test matches in each year and he also became a first man to score more than 1000 runs five times in each year. Similarly, he also holds the record of making 380 runs individually in a test match in a single inning. He scored a record of 380 runs against Zimbabwe on 10 October 2003.
After that Hayden played in a 2006-2007 Ashes series, against England. In which made only 40runs in three innings of the series, which troubled him a lot. After that he again returned to his form and he scored 92 runs in Perth.
In his test career he played 103 test matches, in which he scored 8,625 runs with an average of 50.73. He scored 30 centuries and 29 half centuries and also has taken a 128 catches in his test career. He played his test match in 3rd January 2009 against South Africa.

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