Hayden's retirement

Matthew Hayden retired from International cricket in January 2009. Did he retire so that he can play in the IPL2? Last year he had problems with Cricket Australia(CA) for exacerbating his Achilles heal injury. This injury kept him away from Test matches against West Indies after the IPL last year.

Infact he was docked his pay for not fulfilling his international commitments. Cricketers in Australia dont earn to the extent what Indian cricketers do.

CA spokesman Peter Young believes that the risks of releasing players to the IPL are the same as the once-traditional pilgrimage to England every winter.

The one difference, though, is that Hayden had no interest in a stint of county cricket.

This is from an article extracted from last year's Thaindian News.

Mind you this year CA was more careful and didnt allow Shane Watson, Nathan Bracken and Shaun Tait to play in the IPL.
I may be completely wrong. Looking forward to your comments.

Arctic and Antarctic

Arctic is the region around the earth's North pole opposite to the Antarctic region in the south pole.
The question is why are the regions named so.

Arctic region is a region where we find Polar Bears. However in Antarctic region we dont come across Bears even though the conditions are more or less similar(The temperature at Antarctic is 2 degrees lesser than the temperature at Arctic). The reason is Arctic region is mostly covered by land so we find polar bears in huge numbers. However Antarctic is also an island and hence no bears are found.

Arctic is derived from the Greek word ARKTOS meaning Bear. The region opposite to Arctic is Anti-Arktos and hence called Antarctic.