Top 5 left-handed Australian Test openers of all time

#1 Matthew Hayden

Matthew Hayden is quite simply one of the greatest opening batsmen to have played the game, irrespective of his nationality or that fact that he batted left-handed. However, for the purposes of this article, he is naturally at the summit as far as Australian left-handed opening batsmen are concerned.

Hayden had a bad start to his career and like Langer, he was not a natural opening batsman either but when he returned to the side in around 2000, he never looked back. He became a dominant and intimidating opening batsman, who simply had no weakness.

He was untroubled against extreme pace, seam or swing movement, while on the other hand he was an excellent player of spin and scored lots of runs in the subcontinent during his career.

Hayden opened the batting in 103 Tests and scored 8635 runs at an incredibly (for an opener) average of 50.73. He made 30 centuries and 29 half-centuries in the position.