Legendary Australian opening batter Matthew Hayden is amongst seven cricket greats inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame on Monday evening.
Hayden, now 53, used to be a gap batter for Australia for 16 years.
He in brief took Brian Lara’s Test report for perfect rating with 380 in opposition to Zimbabwe in Perth, and hit 3 centuries whilst successful the 2007 ODI World Cup.
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The towering left-hander plundered 8625 Test runs at an outstanding moderate of 50.73, in addition to 6133 ODI runs at 43.80.
Matthew Hayden recognizes his century in opposition to South Africa on the Adelaide Oval in 2001. The Age
He used to be joined via 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 little girl that one day there would even be a women’s team in our country to now standing here, inducted among the very legends I idolised long before I ever held a bat or a ball, this is a moment I couldn’t have dared to imagine,” Mir stated.
Nobody has captained India in additional fits than Dhoni.
Under his management, India gained the 2007 T20 World Cup, 2011 ODI World Cup, and crowned the Test ratings for 18 months in between. He used to be named to the ODI and T20 international groups of the last decade on the finish of 2019.
Smith changed into South Africa’s youngest captain at 22. He led in an international report 109 exams and gained 53, together with the Proteas’ first sequence win in Australia in 2008-09 during which he performed with a damaged hand.
Matthew Hayden and his long-time batting spouse Justin Langer PA Images by the use of Getty Images
Amla spent 13 hours scoring South Africa’s first triple century, 311 in opposition to England on the Oval in 2012. He additionally rose to No.1 within the ODI ratings.
Vettori changed into the youngest guy to debut for New Zealand in Tests at 18 in 1997, and the left-arm spinner changed into best the 3rd guy in historical past to take 300 Test wickets and hit 4000 runs.
Taylor set the usual for ladies wicketkeepers with a report 232 dismissals around the codecs. She used to be a key contributor in England’s ODI World Cup and T20 World Cup double in 2009 and some other ODI World Cup triumph in 2017.
Mir led Pakistan for seven of her 15 years within the crew, successful two Asian Games. She began as a tempo bowler however a rigidity fracture pressured her to change to off-spin. She retired as Pakistan’s main wicket-taker in ODIs and 2nd perfect in T20s.