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January 22, 2009Posted on 01/22/2009 in Australian cricket
Continuity was the key to Hayden's top-order reign
Much more than the sum of his parts, Matthew Hayden relied on relationships with his team-mates, writes Gideon Haigh in the Guardian.
More than most players, I suspect, Hayden benefited from continuity, not just of his own selection but of others. During his peak of proficiency, he paired up with Justin Langer; they became as familiar and inseparable as a pirate and his parrot. It's a factor in matters of team composition that selectors would do well to heed: a player is not just a sum of his abilities, but also his relationships with comrades. And no cricketer is so dependent on another as an opening batsman on his partner.
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