He already picked a fight with a captain Yuvraj Singh, was invloved in slapgate last year, hardly liked by anyone in the Indian team which you just seem to ignore as on-field issues.
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I am not his counsel for god's sake. And I firmly believe he should nowhere be near the national colors without sorting his mind out. I can understand the rationale behind the dislike for him. However to say random stuff like "He reeks of smut in off-field life" just to add spice to the hate with absurd stories like the above, even though entertaining, is a bit unfair on the guy.
He got two poor decisions in the first Test. The LBW decision in the first Test was missing leg stump by a foot. His gotten plenty of poor & good decisions in his career, so don't try twisting it the wrong way. Realistically, Hayden only failed once during the Indian tour and look fairly comfortable in all of his digs, when he wasn't recieving poor umpiring decisions.
Indeed. He's altogether too fabulous, darling! It all fits: the disco dancing, the emotional outbursts in public...
So you reckon he'd have gone out and hit 100s each of those two times he was roughened by the umpires?
Took a bit of time to catch the drift. As you mention it, it looks all so obvious!
His downfall contributed from a combination of coming back too early from ankle surgery, about 4 poor umpiring decisions, acouple of runouts and too many loose strokes - Not being outdone by the bowling.
Lol, your defence of Hayden borders on the average Indian fan's Tendulkar worship. Such blind idolization never encourage honest cricketing discussions, so I leave where you are comfortable. Not only you just doubled the alleged no. of bad umpiring decisions, but you are attributing reasons like good bowling, bad shots, bad stars etc, which means only one thing, that the batsman was not upto it.
Classic sign of defeat. You know I'm right, so you put it down to biasedness. Nice try, but it's not going to work. Next time, try responding to what I'm saying before you decide to cook an arguement. I never attributed good bowling, I said Hayden was playing loosely due to the built up pressure, which was triggered by a great amount of badluck over the past few months.
Internet is serious business. Oh and where do I sign the deed of surrender?
Already answered this.
383 runs in 17 innings across 9 test matches at 23.93 with 2 50s and 3 ducks. That's his stats since he bigmouthed.
And if these failures were despite bad bowling, sorry, but it puts all more shmuck on your idol's face. When the going gets tough, the tough gets going, the rest retire.
All these add up to one word : Incompetence. Shame the Australian selectors or Ricky Ponting or the millions out there commenting did not realise the truth that you did.
Yeah, that's why the persisted with him for so long.
Hmm...you could excuse Mark Ramprakash with these too.
He didn't average 50 in Test Cricket.
