Matthew Hayden

Australia received a jolt ahead of Friday's second Test with Matthew Hayden returning home after failing to recover from a lingering achilles injury

Ricky Ponting didn't mean to sound desperate, but at the end of the first Test he struggled to contain his thoughts on Michael Clarke and Matthew Hayden coming back

Matthew Hayden offers Australia many things, but in this Test they have missed his stability at the top of the order

Since Australia captured the Frank Worrell Trophy in 1995, the West Indies has lost its cricket lustre to the point where Thursday's opening Test is no longer a major event

Simon Katich will return to the Test team as an opener after Matthew Hayden was ruled out of Thursday's opening match against West Indies with a heel injury

Australia's long-serving opener on preparation, adapting to situations, playing the sweep, and putting the fear of God into bowlers

Matthew Hayden and his opening partner Phil Jaques are preparing to get back to playing Tests

Matthew Hayden has said the Harbhajan Singh-Sreesanth row left him upset but is confident it was a stray incident

Matthew Hayden's 46-ball 81 earned him the Man-of-the-Match award but he believes it was Suresh Raina's knock that made the difference in the Chennai Super Kings' first home game, one that they sneaked by six runs

A lesser man might have lost his nerve, but Joginder Sharma seems to thrive in these situations

Gilli is a hit in Chennai but it's not Adam, some queenly music for the crowds, and Hayden does a Frazier

A late assault from Abhishek Nayar and Harbhajan Singh threatened to gatecrash the Chennai Super Kings' first home game, but Mahendra Singh Dhoni's side held their nerve to clinch a thrilling six-run win

Former foes have become Indian Premier League team-mates and publicly patched up their differences

Shaun Marsh has set his sights on emulating his father Geoff and becoming an opening batsman for Australia in Test and one-day cricket

Simon Katich has used Matthew Hayden, Damien Martyn and Justin Langer as role models during his record-breaking campaign to regain a Test spot

Matthew Hayden could meet with Harbhajan Singh during the Indian Premier League next month in an effort to sort out their differences

At the start of the season Australia were intent on retaining their world-beating status and by the end were just trying to limit damage

An outstanding unbeaten 117 by Sachin Tendulkar - his first in Australia, and his 42nd in all - sealed a six-wicket win for India in the first final of the CB Series in Sydney

Ricky Ponting is frustrated by the repeated escalation of issues involving Australia and India over the past couple of months