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by Karthik Narayan

Human hunger is insatiable, and a theory was framed by a young clergyman by name Alfred Marshall on that topic. Well I’m no economist to argue with that, but a young man is out to prove that theory in the field of cricket. Test Cricket has had its share of the Lees and the yells over a wicket. Brett Lee yells when he gets a wicket. Mr. Justin Lee Langer howls the victory yell when he pouches yet another great low earth gripping, tremor whipping catch at forward short leg. And that’s not all he does, he also yells for joy as he scrambles another single for a hundred, his hunger for runs is insatiable.

He got his first bite of test cricket against the WI when they toured Australia in 1997 at the Adelaide Oval. He made 20 and 54 on debut, not something to really potter about. Initially in his career, he was predominantly a number three batsman, because he was the technically correct player in the team.

He finally broke the myth that he was going to be the one of the best one-down batsman in the world, when he was promoted to open the innings in the Fifth and Final Ashes 2001 test at the Oval, as he made a scintillating century. In his next test, against the NZ at Brisbane, he again opened and made an unbeaten hundred and another at Hobart in the immediately next test. By this time, Hayden had arrived, and together, they started on their dream hunger satisfaction process. Now he can claim to be one of the world’s best Test openers of all time!

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