Exclusive | Meet Matthew Hayden’s daughter Grace who loves dal, is a big fan of Rishabh Pant. Cricket News – Newz9

It was a irritating morning of ready in Brisbane as heavy downpour allowed little or no cricket on the opening day of the third India-Australia Test in Brisbane. Only 13.2 overs have been bowled and the followers received their umbrellas out, put the raincoats on however held on to their beer and loved their Saturday morning, even when it was with none cricket.
With the gamers speeding indoors, the gentleman on the reside grill was aggressively meting out the sausages to the 1000’s who had come for a big fats celebration!
Amid all this, former Australia cricketer Matthew Hayden’s daughter was casually strolling within the hall with little or no cricket a dampener for her too. The 22-12 months-outdated, nevertheless, was nonetheless up for a chat on cricket and touched upon her love for India, the meals and the spices.”I love India. I always heard a lot about India growing up from my dad, he So I’d always be trying Indian food. you struggle at first with Indian food?’ And I said, ‘No, I love it’,” stated Grace in a candid chat with TimesofIndia.com.

Having watched a lot of cricket itself on the tv, and even from the bottom, she follows the circuit very carefully and is a big fan of India wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant. It took her half a second to call Pant has her favourite cricketer from this Indian staff and it was the teen’s return from the horrific automobile crash which continues to be an inspiration.

“I think his comeback story has been sensational. We saw him go as the most expensive player in IPL history just recently. And yes, we all saw the vision of the accident, and for him to come back and still start and even make this The hard work, determination, mentally that would have been really tough to come back from. Obviously I’m proud of him, and he obviously has great strength as a player. as a person. He’s always been exceptionally lovely,” says Grace.
Pant is positively a crowd favourite on this half of the world however the identical cannot be stated about Mohammed Siraj. The seamer was continually booed when he stood on prime of his run-up as we speak and even whereas the sequence has been a bit low-key on the onfield drama, the Travis Head-Siraj episode positively injected some fireplace. Has the IPL, just like the rain as we speak, dampened the depth between these two sides as in comparison with the years passed by?

“I think because the IPL is around, these players are playing together more often. They’re intertwining all the time. But I think when you are stepping onto the field playing for your country, none of that matters, and it has always been the case you want to win for your country,” stated Grace and added that her father himself was a fierce competitor on the sphere however utterly completely different off it.
“My dad is a big teddy bear giant. Like when you actually meet him in person off the field… but as soon as he stepped on the field, he was like a new person,” added Grace.
The ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy is locked at 1-1 however Grace reckons Australia are going to pocket the following three Tests to make it 4-1. For that to occur, cricket has to occur and that wasn’t the case on the opening day at The Gabba.