had predicted that many senior Australian players will cut short their tour to Pakistan in order to participate in IPL 2022. <\/span><\/p>\nNoticing this personal preference of playing in the IPL over national duty especially from some of the senior players in the current Australian squad has infuriated former Australian opening batsman Matthew Hayden and he has called for a pay cut for those players who skip Australia matches.<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to Hayden<\/span> “I just don\u2019t reckon it passes the pub test. The single biggest thing which ties everything together at that level is that you are all really keen to play for your country and if you haven\u2019t got that, I actually question whether you have a high-performance culture at all,\u201d Hayden was quoted as saying by The Australian.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\u201cIt just makes it so hard to build all the things you are trying to have like team values, principles, giving a s*** about your mates. I just feel Cricket Australia is being led around by the players lately and that has created a unique set of problems,\u201d added Hayden.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\nFurther expressing his disappointment, Hayden, who was among the coaching staff for Pakistan during the T20 World Cup, said, \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be able to cherry-pick when you want to play for Australia.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n“It doesn\u2019t make any sense to me. We all know how important the IPL is and it has its window and I know it can be difficult for players and administrators to operate within the confines of modern schedules, but I still think you can\u2019t have your cake and eat it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\u201cIf you are unavailable to play for Australia, there has to be some accountability. You shouldn\u2019t be paid for work you don\u2019t do and should have to do a salary sacrifice.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n“People will say that I played IPL which is true, but it never had any effect on my availability playing for Australia. I couldn\u2019t wait to play for Australia because I spent seven years where I couldn\u2019t get in the bloody team,\u201d <\/span><\/i>concluded Hayden.<\/span><\/p>\nAustralia start their tour of Pakistan with a three-match Test series, starting March 4 2022. The IPL-bound Australian players are expected to leave Pakistan for India after the third Test, which concludes on March 25, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Australian Opening batsmen and Pakistan Batting Consultant Matthew Hayden is very unhappy with some of the senior players of the current Australian team who Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,1179,390,1535,1314,1558],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Hayden-Slams-Aus-Stars-Pak-Tour-IPL.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/puWvs-uB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1899,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cricketfever.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}