If you don’t giggle on the Australian failures on the tour of India, you would possibly cry — and that appears to be Matthew Hayden’s strategy to coping with the ache of one more subcontinental batting collapse.
Hayden, incredulous at witnessing the lack of 9 wickets in 91 minutes of play throughout the first session on Day 3, ripped into the Australian’s use of the sweep after six of their ten dismissals got here through the cross-bat shot.
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“What we’ve seen here is a disaster for Australia,” he mentioned.
“It’s a disaster because they’ve gone way over the edge in terms of their aggressive play.
“What professional in life just hopes?
“No way.
“You’ve got to have a method and you have to think on your feet.
Michael Clarke called for the former opener to be brought into the Australian coaching setup, but Hayden might not be so readily welcomed after he was spotted mocking the Australians after the Delhi Test.
Haydos was snapped taking a broom out to the middle of the Feroz Shah Kotla for a Star Sports segment, seemingly making fun of the Aussies’ sweep-happy tactics.
Speaking on News Corp’s ‘Cricket Et Cetera’ podcast alongside Gideon Haigh and Peter Lalor, Hayden said the sweep shot in Delhi was fraught with danger.
“The ball not going over the stumps means you can only sweep on line,” he mentioned.
“You’ve got to see what the Indian batsmen do and that’s come down to the ball.
“Once you start moving your feet, then they might start tossing it wide, then the sweep shot might be an option.
“I’m never a big fan of saying don’t sweep.
“I think that’s the wrong mentality because you already saw how productive the shot was.
“I’m just saying don’t sweep every ball.”
Hayden famously used the sweep to nice impact on the 2001 tour of India, main the sequence run tally with 549 runs at a median of 109.80.
He attributes his success to having attended a spin camp in 1999 below the supervision of Bishen Bedi and Erapalli Prasanna in Chennai.
Two years later Hayden scored a powerful 203 in Chennai within the third Test of the 2001 sequence.
Brett Geeves wrote in 2017 for Fox Sports of Hayden’s meticulous preparation for the tour, saying he “spent six months without sleep hitting sweep shots” on that “ruggedly prepared” follow wicket in Brisbane to emulate the circumstances within the subcontinent.
“I am told that Hayden would replicate a full day’s play by having spinners bowl to him for two hours from 10:30 to 12:30 – before stopping for a 40 minute lunch and going again for a two-hour session,” Geeves wrote.
Australia head into the third Test in Indore in a state of turmoil and the sequence unwinnable, with captain Pat Cummins flying house for private causes.
Meanwhile, quick bowler Josh Hazlewood has left the tour fully, having didn’t get well from an Achilles harm.
Veteran David Warner may additionally but nonetheless fly house, with scans revealing a hairline fracture in his arm on high of his concussion woes, having copped a barrage of brutal brief bowling from India’s tempo assault in Delhi.
Originally printed as Matthew Hayden takes broom onto Delhi pitch to mock Aussies
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
