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Australia
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Matthew Hayden
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Left-handed batsman (LHB)
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Right-arm medium (RM)
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balls
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84
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7326
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5308
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26/26
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387
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54
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4131
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4010
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146
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27 April
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2006
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(born
October 29 ,
1971 in
Kingaroy, Queensland ) is an outstanding
Australian and
Queensland Cricketer . He is a powerful and aggressive left hand opening
Batsman , known for his ability to score quickly at both
Test and
One Day level. He has formed one of the most fearsome opening partnerships in world
Cricket for
Australia with
Justin Langer .
Hayden debuted for the Australian team in the 1993/94 season. He was given more than one chance to show his wares, opening alongside
Mark Taylor and
Michael Slater , but batted sluggishly and falling too easily and too often to the ball angled across him. It looked as though Hayden's career was over. He was still prolific at domestic level but did not seem to cut it in the Test arena. To his credit he kept churning out big scores for
Queensland and finally he had his international career resurrected in the 2000 tour of
New Zealand . In the tour of India in 2001 he averaged a
Bradmanesque average of 109.80 and then again in 2002. Since then, he has been a regular in both the Test and one day sides.
He briefly held the world record for the highest Test score, 380, which he scored in
Perth against
Zimbabwe on
10 October 2003 . It narrowly eclipsed the previous best, 375, held by
Brian Lara of the
West Indies . Lara, however, reclaimed the record with 400
Not Out against
England on
April 12 ,
2004 . Hayden scored over 1000 Test runs in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 & 2005, the first man to achieve the feat five times. Interestingly, at the commencement of 2006 he had the fourth highest conversion rate (Test centuries scored per Test played) in history, behind only
Bradman ,
George Headley and
Clyde Walcott .
Hayden has been involved in the Australian side that won the
2003 World Cup , and the Test side that recorded the record number of consecutive wins. 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 was also one of
Wisden 's five 2003
Cricketers Of The Year .
In 2000, Hayden's boat capsized whilst fishing near
North Stradbroke Island , he and his two companions (one of whom was Queensland and Australian teammate
Andrew Symonds ) were forced to swim over a kilometre to safety.
