CA punishes Hayden for exacerbating injury during IPL

Melbourne: In an apparent warning to star Aussie players that they compete in the Indian Premier League at their own risk, Cricket Australia had punished former opener Matthew Hayden by docking his pay for exacerbating his Achilles heal injury during the IPL. Hayden, who retired recently after being dropped from Australia's ODI and Twenty20 squads, had his lucrative CA retainer slashed after being sent home from Australia's tour of the West Indies last May with an Achilles tendon injury, a newspaper report claimed. CA officials believed Hayden had suffered or exacerbated the injury while