Matthew Hayden

I mean, everyone, for example, Mitch Stark took a long time to go to the IPL.

But everyone will remember Mitch Stark in the next 100 years.

And look, is that something that a modern player desires?

Because...

To me, you can have another boat, you can have another house, you can have another wellness resort that is coming up in the next couple of days.

There's a bit of a side story, sorry folks, on that one, which we won't go into right now.

You can have all this stuff, but the reality is, and this is what I love about the game, it's heart that matters.

When I think of the great players of all time,

And you just mentioned one right there, you know, in Wazzy Akram.

He's got a great big heart, you know.

He was a wonderful athlete.

He had incredible skills, which he acquired over time.

And he'd play across formats and utilize those formats to develop all of his game.

And with the T20 game now, it's the hands and the ruck in many ways because the skill set's required to be competitive in T20 cricket.

they are not as definite as what you need in the middle format, the ODI cricket, and they're also nowhere near what you need in test cricket.

And it's almost to your point before, it's almost like you need to go... If you're a young cricketer and anyone listening right now to me, I'm telling you, if you can be a long-format cricketer, you'll be an amazing short-format cricketer as well because the transference of skills...

and the transference of technique involved in the short formats.

And I'm going straight away to a guy like Virat Kohli, you know, who still amasses extraordinary numbers of runs in T20 cricket.

But he is an amazing test cricketer.

And there are hundreds of cases like that, in my opinion, across all nations.