Its all over - Hayden announces retirement

[Zap_Brannigan]

So what happens to his IPL contract?

[factual]

So what happens to his IPL contract?

He announced on the radio before the match that he would still play the next 2 years in ipl. By the way a side note concerning the IPL was that australia's 2 best performed players for the past 12 months in clarke and johnson are the only aussies that didn't play IPL.

[Shane]

^^ IPL RULEZ :dance::dance:

[Rajan]

Is this the same sehwag that couldn't even make the indian team in the first 3 matches when india toured australia 5 years ago. u dont make any sense with that grand statement. can u enlighten me about which series 5 years ago and which first 3 matches plz. factual help would be appreciated rather than assumptions. =============================== Hayden and langer overtook the west indies pair for the most century opening partnerships as well as most ever runs by an opening pair. We are discussiing about an opening batsman- not an opening pair.so, wrong analogy/logic. Sehwag has formed a good partnership with Gambhir and years later we can discuss about an apt comparison between VS & GG Vs JL & Hayden.until a comparison of partnerships arise, ur argument is invalid. ================================== Won 3 world cups and once held the record for the highest test score ever not to mention how many catches he took in the slips over the years. which 3 world cups? factually u r wrong!or do u mean the 'third world' cup he won recently?by the way do u also mean any cricketer can win a world cup on their own?great facts. Hayden's highest score record was against the greatest ever bowling attack and has to be regarded as the more valuable knock when compared with the 2 triple hundreds of sehwag -against Dale steyn/ntini & co and one against Shoaib akthar& co. besides the 50 catches in 66 tests, Sehwag has also taken 29 wickets, with a 5 wicket haul and many crucial break throughs. that is 89 in 66 tests, compares more favourably with Hayden's 128 catches off 103 tests! facts again. ================================================ I think the 2003 world cup still hurts painfully in indian minds when hayden and gilchrist and then ponting took apart india's great fast bowler Z. khan. u r clutching at last straws there! Hayden was neither the reason for that world cup final loss nor v consider Zak as a phaaaasht bowler! dont try to act so smart, for once if you start posting 'facts' at least your fictious name would look ok. ==================================== By the way boon wasn't an opener so I would say he isn't better than hayden at that spot wouldn't you. Boon was the opener in his 36 tests out of 107 he played.he was ready to take up the middle order position when it was required by the team and was ready to open when it was needed against tough opponents. he is not a minnow basher. he performed against west indies when they were in their peak-1984-1995, 22 tests, 3 hundreds and 8 fifties, 80 at perth against the likes of Marshall, patterson, walsh, ambrose./149 against Marshal, Ambrose, walsh, one more 50 in the same series.an 109 in west indies against Patterson, Marshal,Ambrose, Walsh/ another 57 in the same series against same fiery line up.a fine match aggregate of 160 runs with a century against ambrose, walsh, bishop, patterson! wud love to know how Mr.Hayden had performed against the same bowlers !!! Facts. [/QUOTE] :hysterical:

[Kohum]

hahaha - haydos - good luck. Try selling some weed for a living :)

[f.b.m]

[Zap_Brannigan]

hahaha - haydos - good luck. Try selling some weed for a living :)

Hmm...So you are richer than him ?

[fineleg]

replace with zaheer and ishant

[Chandan]

Okay, so here is the tribute to Hayden from another attacking opener, Sehwag: Hayden could sledge while batting: Sehwag Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:30 IST Email Mumbai: Matthew Hayden has retired but I get to understand that he has quit on his own terms. I've not seen an attacking batsman of his calibre in my career. The game of cricket has lost a great player. Crucially enough, Australia have lost a rare cricketer. His absence will be felt just as the retirement of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. Very badly, that is. The way he came back to international cricket was amazing. Since his comeback, I think in 1999, he has scored 29 Test hundreds. That is in less than 10 years. I don't think any opener has done that ever. In the last eight years he has scored more than 20 centuries. You can be sure that Australia will not be able to unearth an opener who can hit 20 centuries in the next eight years. If you look at my career, I have played eight years and managed only 15. The best thing about him was that he took advantage of his weight and height. A player of his size can be intimidating for any bowler. He attacks the bowler from the word go. Besides, he is the only batsman I know of who abused the bowler while batting. Yes, you are right, he sledged while batting. He can talk to the bowler and yet stay on the crease and concentrate on his business. Not only that, he can even sledge the fielders while batting. That is not easy, nor is it common. I've known a few players who have complained that this guy talks, chats and sledges a lot. I'm sure his retirement will come as a relief for the bowlers. To attack like him one has to have the shot selection right, know which bowler to hit and which bowler to respect. He knew how to build his innings. If Australia had won so many matches in the last 8-10 years, it was because of the starts he had provided. They would reach 500 in just over a day and it would be largely because of his batting. He would clear the fence even when there is long-off and long-on. Besides, his cover drives and straight drives are difficult to match. The other important aspect of his career was his mental toughness. If your mindset is strong you can survive in international cricket. A batsman can play for 10 years only when he is mentally strong. He was 37. Personally I don't think age is a factor. The key thing is fitness and the ability to enjoy your cricket. My personal equation with him was good. We respected each other. I have never had a chance to open with him in any friendly or benefit games. Actually I would love to do that. I want to watch him bat from the other end. I hope I will get one chance. (As told to Vijay Tagore) ----------------------------------------------------------------- I'd have loved to see them bat together too. And this is probably the most reasonable assessment of Hayden: Vinay VermaWednesday, January 14, 2009 2:31 IST Email Brisbane: The farmer from Kingaroy, Queensland,has been put out to pasture. All cricket lovers will wish Mathew Hayden the greenest of fields to graze on. It was inevitable, in these days of intense media scrutiny, that his continued failures would lead him to jump before he was pushed. It is highly probable that he was tapped on the shoulder by the Australian selectors who themselves are on notice. Contenders for Hayden's now vacant spot like Phil Jacques, Chris Rogers and Phil Hughes have been, predictably, mouthing the platitudes while secretly coveting Hayden's spot. To put the record straight Hayden was a very good opening batsman as his career average of 50.73 and 30 Test centuries suggest. He is behind only Allan Border, Steve Waugh and Ponting as Australia's highest run scorer. But he cannot be classed as a great opening batsman as the pace attacks he faced were largely mediocre except for Wasim Akram, Allan Donald and towards the end Flintoff, Jones, Ntini and Ishant Sharma. In 2005 and again in the last 9 Tests he has been found wanting. He did manage twofifties in Delhi and Nagpur but even then he was not the imposing figure of his pomp. The great openers of the last fifty years include Gordon Greenidge and Sunil Gavaskar. Greenidge had to withstand the fury of Lillee and Thomson and Gavaskar had to contend with the same duo plus Roberts, Holding, Garner and Marshall. Hayden was also an accomplished ODI player and was the leading run scorer in the last World Cup. His partnership with Adam Gilchrist won many matches for Australia inside the first 10 overs. Hayden has retired from all representative cricket and can now concentrate onthe Chennai Super Kings and he will no doubt welcome the shorter form of the game and the reduced travel and training. Is the Indian Premier League going to become the retirement home for discarded cricketers ?

[suraj]

Okay, so here is the tribute to Hayden from another attacking opener, Sehwag: Hayden could sledge while batting: Sehwag Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:30 IST Email Mumbai: Matthew Hayden has retired but I get to understand that he has quit on his own terms. I've not seen an attacking batsman of his calibre in my career. The game of cricket has lost a great player. Crucially enough, Australia have lost a rare cricketer. His absence will be felt just as the retirement of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. Very badly, that is. The way he came back to international cricket was amazing. Since his comeback, I think in 1999, he has scored 29 Test hundreds. That is in less than 10 years. I don't think any opener has done that ever. In the last eight years he has scored more than 20 centuries. You can be sure that Australia will not be able to unearth an opener who can hit 20 centuries in the next eight years. If you look at my career, I have played eight years and managed only 15. The best thing about him was that he took advantage of his weight and height. A player of his size can be intimidating for any bowler. He attacks the bowler from the word go. Besides, he is the only batsman I know of who abused the bowler while batting. Yes, you are right, he sledged while batting. He can talk to the bowler and yet stay on the crease and concentrate on his business. Not only that, he can even sledge the fielders while batting. That is not easy, nor is it common. I've known a few players who have complained that this guy talks, chats and sledges a lot. I'm sure his retirement will come as a relief for the bowlers. To attack like him one has to have the shot selection right, know which bowler to hit and which bowler to respect. He knew how to build his innings. If Australia had won so many matches in the last 8-10 years, it was because of the starts he had provided. They would reach 500 in just over a day and it would be largely because of his batting. He would clear the fence even when there is long-off and long-on. Besides, his cover drives and straight drives are difficult to match. The other important aspect of his career was his mental toughness. If your mindset is strong you can survive in international cricket. A batsman can play for 10 years only when he is mentally strong. He was 37. Personally I don't think age is a factor. The key thing is fitness and the ability to enjoy your cricket. My personal equation with him was good. We respected each other. I have never had a chance to open with him in any friendly or benefit games. Actually I would love to do that. I want to watch him bat from the other end. I hope I will get one chance. (As told to Vijay Tagore) ----------------------------------------------------------------- I'd have loved to see them bat together too.[/QUOTE] I wanna see that too- 2 of the best openers in recent times; what a sight will that be!!!

[Crookbond]

Hayden moves from pitch back to boardroom

"This marks the closing of the book in terms of playing, it wasn't a very easy decision I must admit," Hayden said in Brisbane. "[The Heat coach] Darren Lehmann created a really fun environment to go out and play cricket. It is hard as an athlete to leave your comfort zones and leave something you love as much as I did. "But every dog has their day and certainly I perhaps wasn't at my best last season, but I definitely was the best I could be, and that was something I was proud of for 20 years."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/583007.html That's it for Hayden "completely".

[Executioner]

So he retired just recently? What a player he was! He was one of those few batsman who could both slog cleanly and play conventional cricket strokes, sometimes mixing them.