Matt Hayden

Matthew Hayden

Matthew Hayden at Star Wars: Episode 1 in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Matthew Lawrence Hayden
Born	(1971-10-29) 29 October 1971 (age 46) Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Nickname	Haydos, Unit
Height	190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Batting	Left-hand
Bowling	Right-arm medium, right arm leg-break leg spin
Role	Batsman
International information
National side	Australia (1994-2009)
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
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1991–2009	Queensland
1997	Hampshire
1999–2000	Northamptonshire
2008–2010	Chennai Super Kings
2011–2012	Brisbane Heat
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I List A Matches 103 161 9 308 Runs scored 8,625 6,133 308 12,051 Batting average 50.73 43.80 51.33 44.63 100s/50s 30/29 10/36 0/4 27/67 Top score 380 181* 73* 181* Balls bowled 54 6 - 339 Wickets 0 0 - 10 Bowling average – – - 35.80 5 wickets in innings 0 0 - 0 10 wickets in match 0 n/a - n/a Best bowling 0/7 0/18 - 2/16 Catches/stumpings 128/– 68/– 1/– 129/–
Source: CricketArchive, 17 August 2017

Matthew Lawrence Hayden AM (born 29 October 1971) is a former Australian cricketer, who played all three forms of the game. Career spanning for fifteen years, Hayden was a powerful and aggressive left-handed opening batsman, known for his ability to score quickly at both Test and one day levels.

Hayden holds the record for the highest score made by an Australian batsman in Tests (380). His innings of 201 against India in Chennai remains the 2nd highest score by an Australian in India. He formed one of the most prolific opening partnerships in world Test cricket for Australia with Justin Langer, and in ODI cricket with Adam Gilchrist. Upon his retirement, in January 2009, Hayden's Test average was 50.7; he had scored the second most runs in Test cricket by an opening batsman; and was equal 6th (with Jacques Kallis) on the all-time list for Test centuries.Hayden holds the record for the highest individual test score by an opening batsman in test history(380).

Hayden retired from all forms of cricket in September 2012.

In 2017, Hayden was inducted into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame.

Hayden played Sheffield Shield cricket for Queensland, playing 101 matches, and scoring 8831 runs at an average of 54.85. He also played in the English County Championship, first with Hampshire in 1997 and prominently as captain of Northamptonshire 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.