Matt Hayden loves three things, cooking, boxing day tests and Jesus.
The first one involves something I have absolutely no interest in.
The second one I have already talked about ad nausea.
And the third is some dead dude who disappeared from a cave.
The second and third ones do have some connection, being that Boxing day comes after the day a best selling book claims Jesus was born.
Does the most Christian day of the year inspire Matt Hayden into dominating the G like only Don Bradman has before?
Or.
Does Matthew Hayden, part time chef, photographer and cricketer actually see himself as the son of god reborn?
The G is generally not the easiest wicket to bat on in Australia.
The drop in pitches are odd, to say the least, some days you’d be better off playing with a tennis racquet, it generally has a split personality, Dean Jones makes the same joke every year “the only driving you should do at the G on the first day, is on the way to the ground” and medium pacers are often unplayable on it.
So my question to you is, would jesus have been a back or front foot player?, being that we have already worked out he was a wicket keeper (problems with his hands in his later years).
You forgot to mention that he went to the Trescothick school of mental toughness. Australia under pressure – Hayden gets a duck. See todays innings as perfect example