New Zealand cricketer Matthew Hayden has been caught by a New Zealand journalist celebrating Kane Williamson’s latest achievement.
Williamson is sewing his role as Kiwis ’biggest test bat with an impressive home summer against Pakistan.
The first fell 238 in a New Zealand score of 6/659 mentioned in the second Test, becoming the third Kiwi to make 7000 test runs after Ross Taylor (7379) and Stephen Fleming (7172). ).
It was this action that sparked a bizarre campaign from Hayden by New Zealand Herald journalist Dylan Cleaver.
“By accomplishing it in his 144th innings, it means that only 12 bats in the history of the game have been faster, which is one of 11 of the largest ever catches of the brand, and Matthew Hayden, ”Cleaver wrote.
Where did that come from?
Apologies if we missed an attempt at humor, but even then we can’t allow the great Queenslander to be a joke to someone else – especially a New Zealander – with no choice.
There is no doubt that the list of 12 bats that have completed 7000 test runs in no time faster than Williamson is full of the game’s legends.
Steve Smith, Wally Hammond, Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, Garry Sobers, Kumar Sangakkara, Virat Kohli, Mohammad Yousuf, Sunil Gavaskar, Viv Richards and Rahul Dravid are all generational talents.
There is no doubt that Hayden sits comfortably among them.
Cleaver notes that Sehwag and Gavaskar are the only other opening bats among the dozen.
His leadership was at the top of the order as well as anyone in history and his record of 8625 runs at a better than 50.74 as the best average of any opener to play 100 side innings outside Len Hutton.
So for now the Kiwis should be content to have a player in Williamson who is clearly real-time. But when it came to accusations towards running the 7000s, he was just a little slower than Hayden.