India Tour of Srilanka, Hayden retires from International Cricket:

Indian's Team Tour of Srilanka in Feb,2009:

India have confirmed confirmed a short series in Sri Lanka in the month of feb,2009 and they will play five ODIs and One Twenty 20 game. India and Sri Lanka had a good relationship when it came to cricket. Sri Lanka are due to play three ODIs in Pakistan in the first leg of their tour and resume the second leg for two Tests after the India series.

Matthew Hayden retires from international cricket:

Matthew Hayden, the Australian opener has announced his retirement from international cricket.

Hayden has scored 8625 runs at an average of 50.73 in Tests and over Six (6)thousand runs in 161 ODIs. He did not play too much of Twenty20 cricket, but his strike rate of 143 is truely phenomenal. Hayden had a difficult summer and made only 149 runs at 16.55 from five Tests against New Zealand and South Africa. He was later dropped for the T20 games and one-dayers against South Africa. Hayden said he wanted to concentrate on charity work.