Fishing it out
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
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Cricketers spend their time off from cricket in different ways. All that Matthew Hayden needs is his collapsible fishing rod. Hayden talks to Malcolm Conn of The Australian about fishing, surfing and Grandma's shepherd's pie.
In Galle, the famous southern fort city later devastated by the Boxing Day Tsunami, Hayden saw a group fishing off the rocks near the team hotel, just out of town.
"I noticed they were catching little mackerel so I took my fly rod down to the rocks and within the space of 10 minutes I reckon I had close on 300 people watching," Hayden recalled this week.
"I was thinking, 'this is good, they're obviously keen followers of cricket'. But no-one knew who I was. They were looking at my fly rod. They invited me back to their village to show off this rod. It wasn't me at all."
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo