Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Australia Cricket Players
Mathew Hayden
Allan Border Medal 2002
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2003
Matthew Lawrence Hayden (born October 29, 1971 in Kingaroy, Queensland) is an outstanding 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 a few chances 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, congratulated Hayden on his feat, but 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.
Hayden has had several spells in English county cricket and is most associated with Hampshire.
Full name : Matthew Lawrence Hayden
Born : October 29, 1971, Kingaroy, Queensland
Batting style : Left-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm medium
Test debut : South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg - Mar 4-8, 1994
ODI debut : England v Australia at Manchester - May 19, 1993
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
