Hayden's done it his way

Matthew Hayden looks back at the bests and worsts with Robert Craddock in the Daily Telegraph. The Gabba Test was Hayden's 99th and he is set to become the tenth Australian to 100 Tests in the second Test in Adelaide. A few excerpts:

WORST ROOMMATE: "Tim Zoehrer. He was a massive smoker for a start. Things happened when I roomed with him. I remember we were staying at the Westbury Hotel in England and a bloke invaded my room late at night and tried to kick me out of the room.

"I grabbed him and put his head up a lamp shade. I rang reception and they said they thought he was a sleepwalker and I said 'how do you know? I haven't told you what he looks like'.

"They told me not to touch him but I said 'it's a bit late for that . . . he's in a bit of trouble'."

Hayden copped some flak for his comments on India's Third World status, and he won't earn praise in Bangladesh for the following remarks.

THE GROUND I DISLIKE THE MOST: "Downtown Dhaka and the Chittagong Stadium is not my favourite ground. I remember travelling 90 minutes from the hotel for a 9.30am start at Dhaka and looking out the window and seeing life and humanity pass me by.

"One morning there was a chicken coop on top of a bus and one bloke sitting up with them like the Pied Piper."