Five Australian batsmen who gave India the most trouble

Matthew Hayden

The hard hitting southpaw, destroyed the most gifted bowling attacks from all over the world. He along with Adam Gilchrist and Simon Katich at times, punished the bowlers from the word go more often than not.

Hayden particularly enjoyed his time against India, scoring 1450 runs in 28 outings at 53.7 with a strike rate of 86. He went past the 100 run landmark thrice against India, with the highest of 126.

Hayden used the sweep shot against the Indian spinners to great effect and thus caused lot of issues to the spinners, who otherwise would run through the most formidable line ups.