Matthew Hayden announces retirement from international cricket

Name : Matthew Hayden
Full Name : Matthew Lawrence Hayden
Date of Birth : 29 October 1971
Time Zone : +10:00
Birth Place : Kingaroy, Queensland, Australia
Birth Number of Matthew Hayden : 2
Sun sign of Matthew Hayden : Scorpio
Chinese Zodiac of Matthew Hayden :Boar
Local team : Queensland
Other team : Northamptonshire, Hampshire, ICC World XI

Matthew Lawrence Hayden is a former Australian cricketer. Hayden (nicknames: Haydos, Unit) is a powerful and aggressive left hand opening batsman retired from international cricket on 13 January 2009 subsequent to being dropped from the Australian one day squad selected to play South Africa.

On13th January 2009, Matthew Hayden held a press conference at 11:30am at Brisbane Cricket Ground and officially announced his retirement from representative cricket, effective immediately.Matthew Hayden currently holds the record for the highest scores made by an Australian batsman in both the Test (380 Runs vs Zimbabwe on 9th-13th October 2003) and One Day International (181 not out) arenas.

Matthew Hayden played for the Chennai outfit Chennai Super Kings in the inaugural Indian Premier League (IPL) in April 2008. After a poor run of form in the Test arena during 2008, Hayden was dropped from the ODI and Twenty20 squad in January 2009.

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