Brisbane, Dec. 4 -- Former Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden congratulated Joe Root after England's ace batter slammed his maiden Test hundred on Australian soil during Day 1 of the second Ashes Test in Brisbane on Thursday.

Ahead of the high-voltage Ashes series, cricketer-turned-commentator Hayden made a bizarre claim that he would walk around naked in the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) if veteran batter Root failed to hit a century in this series.

To Hayden's relief, Root slammed a fantastic century on Day 1 of the pink-ball Test at the Gabba. "Congratulations mate on a hundred here in Australia. Took you a while and there was no one that had more skin in the game than me, literally. I was backing you for a hundred in a good...