"Having played a lot against the Indians I would not say they are chokers, even after our 3-0 streak in finals over the last year. It's not as though the Indians played terribly at Wanderers or Kolkata or Melbourne and Sydney."

After battering the Indians into submission Matthew Hayden rises to their defense, disagreeing with Sunil Gavaskar's contention that India had stolen the title of 'chokers in crunch matches' from South Africa