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@mariner4life Can't agree. He was a bully but he could play on all tracks. His series in India in 2001 was an all time performance from an Aussie batsman.
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@MN5 said in Modern batting averages:
@voodoo said in Modern batting averages:
I have Haydon as my 2nd most disliked aussie cricketer behind Andrew Symonds
Shit I have a lot of time for both of those guys and the way they played the game.....
Brad Haddin though.....
Snap.
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@Snowy said in Modern batting averages:
@MN5 said in Modern batting averages:
@voodoo said in Modern batting averages:
I have Haydon as my 2nd most disliked aussie cricketer behind Andrew Symonds
Shit I have a lot of time for both of those guys and the way they played the game.....
Brad Haddin though.....
Snap.
He’s worse than Maradona
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@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
If Hayden was a kiwi, he'd be an all-time, irrefutable legend of the game, selected in any world XI directly behind Bradman and Hadlee.
He walks into an all time Aussie team too as it is. Sure he plundered 380 against Zimbabwe. So what ? He also scored against any and everyone else. I also think people underestimate how tough it is to average that much when your entire career is spent opening too.
He also had a bit of that Richards aura about him.
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@Snowy said in Modern batting averages:
@MN5 said in Modern batting averages:
He’s worse than Maradona
Gloves of god.
Well, granted, cheating to dismiss a kiwi journeyman ( Neil Broom, always partial to a sweep shot ) probably isn’t quite at the magnitude of a football World Cup final....
But yeah fuck you Haddin, still hate ya.
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@voodoo said in Modern batting averages:
@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
If Hayden was a kiwi, he'd be an all-time, irrefutable legend of the game, selected in any world XI directly behind Bradman and Hadlee.
He'd just be a kiwi fuckwit
So... like Hadlee?
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@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
@voodoo said in Modern batting averages:
@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
If Hayden was a kiwi, he'd be an all-time, irrefutable legend of the game, selected in any world XI directly behind Bradman and Hadlee.
He'd just be a kiwi fuckwit
So... like Hadlee?
Such an Aussie thing to say.
I think Hadlee divided his teammates with his attitude to be fair, controversy over him keeping the car he won etc. Part of me thinks what a dick, the other part thinks fair enough as he was far and away the best player on the team.
Also Aussie fans calling him a piston wristed gibbon was a bit of a compliment really, they didn't bother with his teammates as they weren't a threat like Paddles was. .
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@MN5 said in Modern batting averages:
Such an Aussie thing to say.
I think Hadlee divided his teammates a with his attitude to be fair, controversy over him keeping the car he won etc. Part of me thinks what a dick, the other part thinks fair enough as he was far and away the best player on the team.Kind of what I was getting at
I actually attended one of the ODIs during the "Hadlee is a piston wristed gibbon" tour. Most uncouth and my Mum was livid - tho that may have been her having a thing for the bloke.
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@NTA said in Modern batting averages:
@MN5 said in Modern batting averages:
Such an Aussie thing to say.
I think Hadlee divided his teammates a with his attitude to be fair, controversy over him keeping the car he won etc. Part of me thinks what a dick, the other part thinks fair enough as he was far and away the best player on the team.Kind of what I was getting at
I actually attended one of the ODIs during the "Hadlee is a piston wristed gibbon" tour. Most uncouth and my Mum was livid - tho that may have been her having a thing for the bloke.
Ha, yes we've had this discussion before.
In recent interviews I've seen he seems to have mellowed and the arrogance seems to have subsided too.
He'll always be an absolute NZ sporting icon ( even if Oz have had about 20 players of his calibre over the years )
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