Matthew Hayden Praises Mitchell Starc's Magic With Pink Ball In Adelaide Test
After the first day of the second Test match in Adelaide – a much-awaited Pink Ball Test Australia legends Matthew Hayden shared his insights exclusively on Star Sports. Reflecting on the opening day of the second Test between India vs Australia of the Border-Gavaskar series, he discussed various topics including Australia's bowling performance, Mitchell Starc's brilliance and areas where India can improve on the second day of the Test.
Former Australian batsman Matthew Hayden spoke about Starc's brilliant performance said that he never actually saw pink ball swing in 40th over aggressively and praised Mitchell Starc for his tremendous bowling spells.
"They have that scattered seam delivery that goes across right-handed batsmen, but when they have that ability – which they had – I have to admit I was a little bit surprised, I have never actually seen the pink ball swing in the 40th over and swing so aggressively. Up until that time, he used a very important word, and it's also an underrated word, and that's 'speed'. It was all in India's favour."
"Getting back to life and the game is a difficult situation, associated with opportunities to struggle to get the momentum back, and Mitchell Starc did that the only way he can do that – when the lights are the way they are and they have that beautiful coloured ball in their hands," Hayden said. He's a magician with the pink ball."
Matthew Hayden also gave his opinion on Australia's bowling performance on the first day. He said
" I think Australia bowled in two halves, to be honest. I thought their first maybe 20 overs, they were very conservative. It was like they knew that the pink ball was going to start to swing. And when Scott Boland came around and just started getting into the line of the stumps, that was the turnaround," the former Australian legend continued. Around about that 35th over, we saw some of those missiles that Mitchell Starc started. That was 45, 50 overs in, and it started to swing. That’s what earned them the strong position they find themselves in today."