Legendary Australian opening batter Matthew Hayden is amongst seven cricket greats inducted into the ICC Corridor of Fame on Monday night time.
Hayden, now 53, was a gap batter for Australia for 16 years.
He briefly took Brian Lara’s Take a look at document for highest rating with 380 towards Zimbabwe in Perth, and hit three centuries whereas successful the 2007 ODI World Cup.
THE MOLE: Benji ‘skating on thin ice’ amid NRL crackdown
READ MORE: Crowd goes nuts as Galvin cements Bulldogs win
READ MORE: ‘A really dark place’: McKeown’s sad admission after DQ, protest
The towering left-hander plundered 8625 Take a look at runs at a powerful common of fifty.73, in addition to 6133 ODI runs at 43.80.
Matthew Hayden acknowledges his century towards South Africa on the Adelaide Oval in 2001. The Age
He was joined by India’s MS Dhoni, South Africa’s Graeme Smith and Hashim Amla, Daniel Vettori of New Zealand, Sarah Taylor of England, and Sana Mir, the primary girl from Pakistan to be inducted.
“From dreaming as a bit of woman that sooner or later there would even be a girls’s group in our nation to now standing right here, inducted among the many very legends I idolised lengthy earlier than I ever held a bat or a ball, this can be a second I could not have dared to think about,” Mir stated.
No one has captained India in additional matches than Dhoni.
Underneath his management, India gained the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 ODI World Cup, and topped the Take a look at rankings for 18 months in between. He was named to the ODI and T20 world groups of the last decade on the finish of 2019.
Smith grew to become South Africa’s youngest captain at 22. He led in a world document 109 exams and gained 53, together with the Proteas’ first collection win in Australia in 2008-09 by which he performed with a damaged hand.
Matthew Hayden and his long-time batting associate Justin Langer PA Photographs by way of Getty Photographs
Amla spent 13 hours scoring South Africa’s first triple century, 311 towards England on the Oval in 2012. He additionally rose to No.1 within the ODI rankings.
Vettori grew to become the youngest man to debut for New Zealand in Exams at 18 in 1997, and the left-arm spinner grew to become solely the third man in historical past to take 300 Take a look at wickets and hit 4000 runs.
Taylor set the usual for ladies wicketkeepers with a document 232 dismissals throughout the codecs. She was a key contributor in England’s ODI World Cup and T20 World Cup double in 2009 and one other ODI World Cup triumph in 2017.
Mir led Pakistan for seven of her 15 years within the group, successful two Asian Video games. She began as a tempo bowler however a stress fracture compelled her to change to off-spin. She retired as Pakistan’s main wicket-taker in ODIs and second highest in T20s.
