Tuesday, May 26, 2009

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.

1 comment:

Mr Nobody said...

Well, I personally dont feel that he retired bcoz of sum problems...Maybe he was not in good form and that may have tempted him to take retirement. IPL is surely very lucrative in terms of package...its a good sidebusiness for retired cricketers...