Hayden's time looks up

Matthew Hayden's highest innings of the Australian summer was probably his most frustrating, and he surely has only one knock left to save his career, says Rob Smyth in the Guardian.

He has always struggled to cope with bad form: some will say because of a lack of humility, others because of a lack of flexibility in body, mind, or both. Ian Healy once described the Australian team, in the nicest possible sense of word, as bluffers. He was right: any game that is played predominantly in the mind will depend to some extent on bluff, and Hayden, as the most overtly strong member of the side both physically and mentally, is probably the biggest bluffer of the lot.