This rivalry should have been one sided with Matthew Hayden dominating Harbhajan Singh but that was not the case. This rivalry has been one of the most explosive and one of the most hard fought in the last 20 years. Whenever India vs Australia took place this was the match that caught a lot of eyeballs. Matthew Hayden was this big imposing batter and Harbhajan Singh was the veteran spinner.
Matthew Hayden
Matthew Hayden is one of the most destructive opening batters in history. He has the second highest score by a batter in the history of Test Cricket at 380 runs. He has played in 103 Test Matches for Australia. He has an average of 50.74 while batting for Australia. He has made 8625 runs and he has hit 30 hundreds and 2 Double Hundreds as well as a triple century in Test Cricket. He has also played 161 ODIs for Australia in which he has scored 6133 runs at a good average of 43.81. He has hit 10 Hundreds in ODI Cricket. In total he has made more than 14700+ international runs and 40 hundreds for Australia. You can check out here some of Matthew Hayden's match winning knocks
Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh is one of the best off spinners that the sport has ever seen and one of the Top 3 in India. He has played 103 Test Matches and has taken 417 Wickets. He has an average of 32.48 and he has taken 25 Five Wicket Hauls and 5 times he has taken 10 wickets in a Test Match. He has also played 236 ODIs for India. He has got 269 Wickets for India in which he has 3 Five Wicket Hauls in ODI Cricket. He has taken a total of 711 Wickets in international cricket which includes 25 Wickets in T20I Cricket. Take a look here at Best Harbhajan Singh bowling performances
Head to Head
Harbhajan Singh has bowled 356 balls to Matthew Hayden in Test Cricket. Matthew Hayden has scored 226 runs against him however Harbhajan Singh has dismissed him 7 times in Test Cricket.
In ODI Cricket Matthew Hayden has faced 192 balls from Harbhajan Singh and has made 127 runs while being dismissed twice.
Memorable Encounters
In the 1st Test in 2004, Matthew Hayden was dismissed by Harbhajan Singh at the score of 26. This was a good contest
In the 4th Test in 2008, Matthew Hayden made a brilliant century against India and Harbhajan Singh. He dominated Harbhajan Singh throughout the Innings.
In the 2nd ODI between India vs Australia in 2007, it was Matthew Hayden who got a fast paced 75 and he hit Harbhajan Singh for fours and sixes in this match.
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