Queenslander’s career-high rating puts him 10th in Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for Test batsmen and 18th in ODI list
Australia’s Matthew Hayden, who has just retired from representative cricket, can now look back on an international career that puts him in the top 10 Test batsmen and to
p 20 ODI batsmen of all-time, according to the Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings.Hayden’s highest Test rating of 935 came during the Ashes series of 2002-03 and puts him level in 10th position with South Africa’s Jacques Kallis and just behind four others, Sri Lanka’s Kumar Sangakkara and a West Indian triumvirate consisting of legends Clive Walcott, Viv Richards and Garry Sobers.
Hayden’s one-day performances put him 18th in the all-time Reliance Mobile ICC Player Rankings for ODI batsmen with a career- high rating of 854 points, a tally that puts him level with New Zealand’s Glenn Turner and just behind Sri Lanka’s Aravinda de Silva.
To put this in perspective, only 25 batsmen in the history of the game have amassed 900 rating points or more in Test cricket while just 20 have passed the 850-point mark in ODIs. The full all-time lists can be viewed at www.iccreliancerankings.com.
Hayden’s achievements in the game are remarkable. In 103 Tests he scored 8,625 runs at an average of 50.73, including 30 centuries and 29 fifties. His highest score of 380 against Zimbabwe at the WACA in 2003 was a world record at the time and at his best he was an impossibly aggressive and mentally strong player who loved to dominate bowling through brute force.
He twice scored centuries in four successive Tests, putting him in an exclusive club of just three batsmen who have achieved that feat (the others being Don Bradman and Ken Barrington) and he passed the 1,000-run mark in a calendar year on five occasions.
He played 161 ODIs, scoring 6,133 runs at an average of 43.80. An obvious highlight was when he smashed 10 sixes on his way to an unbeaten 181 against New Zealand in the last ODI of the 2006-07 Chappell-Hadlee series. Then, later in 2007 he was the leading run-scorer at the ICC Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, knocking off 659 runs at an average of 73.22.
Indeed, 2007 was a great year for the Queenslander which resulted in him winning the ODI Player of the Year at the prestigious ICC Awards. This accolade was made all the more significant considering a year earlier he was not even in the Australia one-day team.
All-time Reliance Mobile ICC Test Player Rankings (as of 14 January 2009)
Rank Player Team HS Rating
Rank Player Team HS Rating
1 Don Bradman AUS 961 v India, 06/02/1948
2 Len Hutton ENG 945 v West Indies, 30/03/1954
3= Jack Hobbs ENG 942 v Australia, 19/08/1912
3= Ricky Ponting AUS 942 v England, 01/12/2006
5 Peter May ENG 941 v Australia, 23/08/1956
6= Clyde Walcott WI 938 v Australia, 11/06/1955
6= Viv Richards WI 938 v England, 27/03/1981
6= Garry Sobers WI 938 v India, 13/01/1967
6= Kumar Sangakkara SL 938 v England, 01/12/2007
10= Matthew Hayden AUS 935 v England, 07/11/2002
10= Jacques Kallis SA 935 v New Zealand, 18/11/2007
12 Mohammad Yousuf PAK 933 v West Indies, 27/11/2006
13= Graeme Pollock SA 927 v Australia, 19/02/1970
13= Everton Weekes WI 927 v New Zealand, 03/03/1956
15= Dudley Nourse SA 922 v England, 07/06/1951
15= Doug Walters AUS 922 v South Africa, 19/02/1970
17= Neil Harvey AUS 921 v South Africa, 06/02/1953
17= Michael Hussey AUS 921 v West Indies, 23/05/2008
19 Denis Compton ENG 917 v Australia, 08/07/1948
20 Sunil Gavaskar IND 916 v England, 30/08/1979
All-time Reliance Mobile ICC ODI Player Rankings (as of 14 January 2009)
Rank Player Team HS Rating
1 Viv Richards WI 935 v Pakistan, 02/12/1985
2 Zaheer Abbas PAK 931 v New Zealand, 20/06/1983
3 Greg Chappell AUS 921 v New Zealand, 03/02/1981
4 David Gower ENG 919 v New Zealand, 15/06/1983
5 Dean Jones AUS 918 v West Indies, 09/03/1991
6 Javed Miandad PAK 910 v Sri Lanka, 08/10/1987
7 Brian Lara WI 908 v Pakistan, 26/03/1993
8= Desmond Haynes WI 900 v New Zealand, 23/04/1985
8= Gary Kirsten SA 900 v Australia, 19/10/1996
10 Allan Lamb ENG 897 v Pakistan, 02/03/1985
11 Gordon Greenidge WI 895 v India, 07/12/1983
12 Sachin Tendulkar IND 887 v Zimbabwe, 13/11/1998
13 Michael Bevan AUS 885 v England, 17/01/1999
14 Kepler Wessels AUS 872 v Sri Lanka, 23/01/1985
15= Michael Hussey AUS 863 v New Zealand, 28/01/2007
15= Graham Gooch ENG 863 v Pakistan, 22/11/1987
17 Aravinda de Silva SL 861 v Pakistan, 11/04/1997
18= Matthew Hayden AUS 854 v India, 15/02/2003
18= Glenn Turner NZ 854 v Sri Lanka, 13/06/1983
20 Mark Waugh AUS 852 v New Zealand, 11/03/1996
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