Virender Sehwag vs Matthew Hayden

[PlayerComparisons]

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[Red_Ink_Squid]

Sehwag fractionally better and massively more fun.

 

[Uppercut]

Posting Hayden comparison threads is a sign that CW is finally healing from the trauma of the Richard era.

It’s a better comparison than Hayden vs Atherton, but I’d say Sehwag was a little better.

 

[Flem274*]

Hayden for me, by a whisker. His march down to smoke the pace bowler back over his head is carved into my memory.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

It's the sort of poll that ends 27-2 with Hayden getting two sympathy votes.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Similar strengths and weaknesses with sehwag's strengths and weaknesses both more pronounced than Hayden's.

 

[Chrish]

Sehwag is the best player of spin I have seen in my lifetime. But he wasn’t all that great against pace bowling.

Hayden was an excellent player of spin in his own right. And he wasn’t that weak against pace in the manner Sehwag was although he was just average.

Overall Hayden for me by a hair’s width..

 

[ImpatientLime]

Sehwag is the best player of spin I have seen in my lifetime. But he wasn’t all that great against pace bowling.

Hayden was an excellent player of spin in his own right. And he wasn’t that weak against pace in the manner Sehwag was although he was just average.

Overall Hayden for me by a hair’s width..

wasn't Sehwag perfectly good against pace until it moved off the straight at which point he was pretty inept? sure he went fine in Australia but terribly in England for example.

 

[srbhkshk]

Sehwag was okay against pace early his career, as he got older he became more and more a caricature of himself and became useless against it.

 

[Chrish]

wasn't Sehwag perfectly good against pace until it moved off the straight at which point he was pretty inept? sure he went fine in Australia but terribly in England for example.

He was fine against pure pace but less than mediocre against fraction of lateral movement. Averages in 20s in Sa, England and NZ for example.

Hayden too averaged in 30s in Eng and SA and 28 in NZ. I can’t believe both of them where so poor against lateral movement!

 

[_00_deathscar]

Sehwag’s SR in tests is higher than Hayden’s in ODIs - and Hayden was considered an aggressive player. I still don’t think people realise just how fast scoring Sehwag the test player actually was. He was Pant on steroids, but consistently so (whereas Pant is an absolute firecracker but does have stodgy innings/starts - in a good way though).

Honestly though it’s really really hard to split them. I go with Sehwag because on a road he will absolutely obliterate you and take the game away in a single session.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Hard to split. Hayden because he had a way better rig and probably a bigger penis

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Hard to split. Hayden because he had a way better rig and probably a bigger penis

That's why he had to use the Mongoose? To compensate for that?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Similar strengths and weaknesses with sehwag's strengths and weaknesses both more pronounced than Hayden's.

Incredibly well put.

Personally, would have loved to see them open the batting together in a test match. Good luck.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Personally, would have loved to see them open the batting together in a test match. Good luck.

Possibly in a South Africa v Rest of the World test match?

 

[vicleggie]

Viru

 

[Burgey]

Two quintessential 2000s openers. Would give the edge slightly to Sehwag but like Sm00teh said, would have been a barrel of fun watching them open the batting together.

 

[a massive zebra]

Both were really good in favourable conditions and pretty mediocre in unfavourable conditions. Sehwag would absolutely obliterate you on a flat deck with no lateral movement, but Hayden was perhaps a little less inept against swing (although still not great). It's Sehwag for me.