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Daniel Vettori

Daniel Vettori
Daniel Vettori, Dunedin, NZ, 2009.jpg
Daniel Vettori at the University Oval in 2009
Personal information
Full name Daniel Luca Vettori
Born (1979-01-27) 27 January 1979 (age 38)
Auckland, New Zealand
Nickname Dan, Harry Potter
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Role All-rounder, Coach
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 200) 6 February 1997 v England
Last Test 26 November 2014 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 101) 25 March 1997 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 29 March 2015 v Australia
ODI shirt no. 11
Domestic team information
Years Team
1996–2015 Northern Districts
2003 Nottinghamshire
2006 Warwickshire
2008–2010 Delhi Daredevils
2010 Queensland Bulls
2011–2015 Royal Challengers Bangalore
2011–2015 Brisbane Heat
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 113 291 174 356
Runs scored 4,531 2,213 6,695 3,499
Batting average 30.00 17.15 29.62 20.10
100s/50s 6/23 0/4 9/34 2/10
Top score 140 83 140 138
Balls bowled 28,814 13,877 42,258 17,173
Wickets 362 302 565 372
Bowling average 34.36 31.82 31.82 31.41
5 wickets in innings 20 2 33 2
10 wickets in match 3 n/a 3 n/a
Best bowling 7/87 5/7 7/87 5/7
Catches/stumpings 58/– 82/– 98/– 115/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 13 February 2015

Daniel Luca Vettori, ONZM (born 27 January 1979) is a retired cricketer who played for the New Zealand cricket team. He is currently the head coach of the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL and the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash league. He was the captain of New Zealand between 2007 and 2011. Vettori is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18, and New Zealand's most-capped test cricketer with 112 caps, and New Zealand's most capped One-Day cricketer with 284 caps. Vettori was a bowling all-rounder who bowled slow left-arm orthodox spin; he is known for his accuracy, flight and guile rather than prodigious turn, and also his speed variation. He has a Test batting average of around 30 which made him one of the more consistent batsmen in the New Zealand cricket team. In the fourth season of Indian Premier League, he was contracted by Royal Challengers Bangalore for US$550,000.

He was born in Auckland and brought up in Hamilton, attending Marian School and later St. Paul's Collegiate School. When available, he plays provincial cricket for Northern Districts and is also an international member of Indian Premier League team the Royal Challengers Bangalore. Vettori also represents the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League. He is among a very small minority of international sports stars to wear prescription spectacles while playing sport, and only one of very few cricketers in the modern era to play Test cricket with spectacles, others including Zimbabwean Charles Coventry, Australian Chris Rogers, and West Indian Clive Lloyd.


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