[VIDEO] Matthew Hayden "130KpH deliveries in IPL, different cup of tea when facing Shaheen Afridi"
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Interesting thought from Hayden regarding the pace of most of the bowlers in the IPL and then suddenly having to face the likes of Shaheen Shah Afridi.
Matthew Hayden "The Indian batters had been facing 130KpH deliveries for the last month during the IPL. It's a different cup of tea when you are facing someone running and bowling at Shaheen Shah Afridi's pace"
It's 11 minutes 20 seconds into the video.
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Matthew Hayden on Pakistan squad's sense of spirituality:
"More than anything, that you have not seen in an Australian dressing room, is that the whole culture is underpinned by this fantastic sense of spirituality in spirit. Every day, bar none there is this unbelievable discipline... You can be walking to the lift, and there will be prayer time and at the base of the lift, there will be whole of the team praying in unison. Its a phenomenal cultural experience for me personally. To see the way they engage with each other, and the way they engage with their own sense of spirituality in purpose around their country is phenomenal"
"There is a great respect for the game of cricket (amongst Pakistan players), and from my point of view, I went in very softly and waited for the players to start requesting certain things - mindsets have often been major topics of discussion with them, because really what can I do about techniques in such a short time. I don't want to be tinkering with technique but you can certainly be tinkering around mindsets. They are very coachable and there has never been anything come back to me like, you know coach, you've had your go and sorry we're thinking this or that"
"That word coachable is significant because we also have quite a diverse group of players. We've got players who I played against - Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez, the two guys who are well into their 40s. Those guys have such fantastic input into the group. Rightfully so, Babar Azam is a really solid leader. He's no fuss, he's not anxious about things. He goes into his own performances, he requires humility"
"There is a language barrier, and its worth acknowledging but there are some boys who are fantastic in their capabilities around translation. The other day I had a long chat with young Haider Ali, he has language barrier but Hafeez translated that entire conversation. If you speak slowly and precisely and explain things, then you get your point across. Cricket is such a visual game and words mean nothing and if there is a tip you want to relay then body language, hand signals and temperament is part thereof the challenge that bridges the gap between words as such but we all learn the game by looking at yourself or others and you replicate and go forward like that"
"You have the young Haris Rauf who has played in the BBL, who came from the humble beginnings of playing tape-ball cricket which they play in Pakistan, he never played hard-ball cricket and he got spotted, and suddenly now he is bowling 150Kph for his country and there is a string of young fast-bowlers just like him who are sitting in the wings who want to be like Shoaib Akhtar - they want to be Brett Lee. They have zero governance on their accelerator - they want to bowl fast and God love them because its next level in T20s where average bowling gets punished and great bowling gets rewarded"
[utube]apotlOc6jd4[/utube]
Interesting thought from Hayden regarding the pace of most of the bowlers in the IPL and then suddenly having to face the likes of Shaheen Shah Afridi.
Matthew Hayden "The Indian batters had been facing 130KpH deliveries for the last month during the IPL. It's a different cup of tea when you are facing someone running and bowling at Shaheen Shah Afridi's pace"
It's 11 minutes 20 seconds into the video.
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Matthew Hayden on Pakistan squad's sense of spirituality:
"More than anything, that you have not seen in an Australian dressing room, is that the whole culture is underpinned by this fantastic sense of spirituality in spirit. Every day, bar none there is this unbelievable discipline... You can be walking to the lift, and there will be prayer time and at the base of the lift, there will be whole of the team praying in unison. Its a phenomenal cultural experience for me personally. To see the way they engage with each other, and the way they engage with their own sense of spirituality in purpose around their country is phenomenal"
"There is a great respect for the game of cricket (amongst Pakistan players), and from my point of view, I went in very softly and waited for the players to start requesting certain things - mindsets have often been major topics of discussion with them, because really what can I do about techniques in such a short time. I don't want to be tinkering with technique but you can certainly be tinkering around mindsets. They are very coachable and there has never been anything come back to me like, you know coach, you've had your go and sorry we're thinking this or that"
"That word coachable is significant because we also have quite a diverse group of players. We've got players who I played against - Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez, the two guys who are well into their 40s. Those guys have such fantastic input into the group. Rightfully so, Babar Azam is a really solid leader. He's no fuss, he's not anxious about things. He goes into his own performances, he requires humility"
"There is a language barrier, and its worth acknowledging but there are some boys who are fantastic in their capabilities around translation. The other day I had a long chat with young Haider Ali, he has language barrier but Hafeez translated that entire conversation. If you speak slowly and precisely and explain things, then you get your point across. Cricket is such a visual game and words mean nothing and if there is a tip you want to relay then body language, hand signals and temperament is part thereof the challenge that bridges the gap between words as such but we all learn the game by looking at yourself or others and you replicate and go forward like that"
"You have the young Haris Rauf who has played in the BBL, who came from the humble beginnings of playing tape-ball cricket which they play in Pakistan, he never played hard-ball cricket and he got spotted, and suddenly now he is bowling 150Kph for his country and there is a string of young fast-bowlers just like him who are sitting in the wings who want to be like Shoaib Akhtar - they want to be Brett Lee. They have zero governance on their accelerator - they want to bowl fast and God love them because its next level in T20s where average bowling gets punished and great bowling gets rewarded"
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