wfdu_ben91
International 12th Man
Australia's only been challenged in just 6 different series over the past decade: India 2001, India 2003/04, England 2005, India 2007/08, India 2008 and South Africa 2008/09. If you combine all of those statistics from those series' then Hayden has easily been Australia's best batsman over the past decade when Australia have been challenged.
Cricinfo Statsguru - Test matches - Batting records
He is the only batsman out of our lineup to have scored multiple 100's and have averaged over 50, even though Andrew Symonds is the only other batsman to have averaged over 50. Even the great Ricky Ponting has played more matches then Hayden over this period but has scored less runs, at a noticiably lower average.
One good performance against a minnow doesn't make the player a "minnow basher". To call and even comtemplate calling Hayden a minnow basher when he has performed best out of all of the Australian batsman against challenging opposition of the past decade, is simply laughable.
Cricinfo Statsguru - Test matches - Batting records
He is the only batsman out of our lineup to have scored multiple 100's and have averaged over 50, even though Andrew Symonds is the only other batsman to have averaged over 50. Even the great Ricky Ponting has played more matches then Hayden over this period but has scored less runs, at a noticiably lower average.
One good performance against a minnow doesn't make the player a "minnow basher". To call and even comtemplate calling Hayden a minnow basher when he has performed best out of all of the Australian batsman against challenging opposition of the past decade, is simply laughable.
