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Sam Konstas announced himself arsenic the country's brightest young cricket prima successful emphatic manner against India this summer, but fans who are hoping helium has struck up a narration with the girl of Aussie fable Matt Hayden are mode disconnected the mark.
Grace Hayden, the glamourous girl of the erstwhile Australian opener, acceptable tongues wagging aft an representation of her with Konstas was posted to Instagram connected the weekend.
The mates were snapped astatine The Star Championships Day 1, a $12.9million raceday astatine Royal Randwick featuring 4 Group 1 events including the ATC Australian Derby, Star Doncaster Mile, Asahi Super Dry T J Smith Stakes and Inglis Sires.
Dressed to the nines, Konstas had his limb draped astir Grace's cervix and was pointing to a polaroid photograph the mates had precocious taken together.
'@samkonstas5 x @grace.hayden_,' Grace captioned the image.
And that led galore cricket fans to leap the weapon and incorrectly presume they are a couple.
Sam Konstas was pictured with Grace Hayden astatine The Star Championships astatine Royal Randwick, mounting tongues wagging
Grace is the girl of Australian fable Matt Hayden (pictured together), the big-hitting Queensland opening batter
Grace was besides pictured astatine the races with her boyfriend Wilson Statham, who she has been with since April past year
'Wow, what a woman you have,' 1 posted.
'What a large couple,' added another.
However, Grace already has a spouse - and it is not Sam Konstas.
The 22-year-old recently delivered a loved-up show with her caller fabric heir fellow Wilson Statham astatine The Everest contention time successful Sydney past October.
Grace and Wilson made their narration nationalist successful April past twelvemonth during a time retired astatine the Randwick races. They were besides pictured unneurotic astatine The Star Championships.
Wilson comes from a salient cultivation family. His parents, Danielle and David, tally Sundown Pastoral Company - a privately owned, family-operated concern specialising successful fabric and cropping.
Their farming operations agelong crossed much than 70,000 hectares passim Queensland and bluish New South Wales.
Grace is besides carving retired her ain way successful the sports media world, securing a large caller relation arsenic a presenter.
Konstas holds the Border Gavaskar Trophy, won by Australia successful past summer's bid against India, during which helium stamped himself arsenic a prima of the future
The young batsman made a sanction for himself by taking connected Indian spearhead Jasprit Bumrah
At conscionable 22, the rising tv endowment has been named the pb presenter for Racing X, a planetary integer level based successful Hong Kong.
Her caller relation volition instrumentality her astir the world, reporting from large sporting events successful locations specified arsenic Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, and Las Vegas.
Although she’s the girl of erstwhile cricket large and commentator Matthew Hayden, 53, Grace says she brings coagulated acquisition to the array and is acceptable to marque her ain mark.
Meanwhile Konstas has earned his archetypal Cricket Australia contract, joining Matt Kuhnemann and Beau Webster arsenic caller additions for the 2025–26 season.
Despite his contract, Konstas is not guaranteed a spot successful the starting XI for the World Test Championship final, with selectors weighing aggregate options for the apical order.
Allrounder Cameron Green is expected to instrumentality from injury, perchance creating a compression successful Australia’s apical six.
Usman Khawaja, astatine 38, remains a cardinal figure, with selectors focusing much connected signifier than age.
Meanwhile, Cooper Connolly and Todd Murphy were notable omissions from the declaration list, contempt caller appearances for Australia.
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