Daniel Vettori

Daniel Luca Vettori ONZM (born 27 January 1979) is a former cricketer who played for the New Zealand cricket team in all formats and currently spin bowling coach of Bangladesh national cricket team. He is the 200th Test cap for New Zealand.

Daniel Vettori
ONZM

Daniel Vettori at the University Oval in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Daniel Luca Vettori
Born	(1979-01-27) 27 January 1979 Auckland, New Zealand
Nickname	Martha, Harry Potter[1]
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Slow left-arm orthodox
Role	Allrounder
International information
National side	New Zealand (1997–2015)
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
T20I debut (cap 25)	12 September 2007 v Kenya
Last T20I	5 December 2014 v Pakistan
Domestic team information
Years	Team
1996/97–2014/15	Northern Districts
2003	Nottinghamshire
2006	Warwickshire
2008–2010	Delhi Daredevils
2009/10	Queensland
2011–2012	Royal Challengers Bangalore
2011/12–2014/15	Brisbane Heat
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 113 295 174 365 Runs scored 4,531 2,253 6,695 3,549 Batting average 30.00 17.33 29.62 20.16 100s/50s 6/23 0/4 9/34 2/10 Top score 140 83 140 138 Balls bowled 28,814 14,060 41,258 17,628 Wickets 362 305 565 387 Bowling average 34.36 31.71 31.82 30.98 5 wickets in innings 20 2 33 2 10 wickets in match 3 0 3 0 Best bowling 7/87 5/7 7/87 5/7 Catches/stumpings 58/– 88/– 98/– 121/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 13 February 2016
Medal record Representing  New Zealand Men's Cricket Commonwealth Games 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team competition

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. Vettori announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket following the 2015 Cricket World Cup.[2]

Early career

He was born in Auckland and brought up in Hamilton, attending Marian School and later St. Paul's Collegiate School, where he started off playing as a medium-pacer, but slowly transitioned into a spinner.[3]

He was 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.

Bowling records

A graph showing Vettori's Test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time

He took his 300th Test wicket in Sri Lanka in 2009, becoming only the second New Zealand bowler (after Richard Hadlee) to pass that mark[4] and he is currently New Zealand's leading ODI wicket-taker.[5]

Vettori has three 10 wicket hauls in Test cricket, against Sri Lanka, Australia, and Bangladesh. His best innings figures were achieved in Auckland in 1999–2000 against Australia where he took 7/87. He finished with career best match figures in that game, taking 12/149. They are the second-best ever by a New Zealander, with only Richard Hadlee having taken more in a match. With another 12 wicket effort, against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the only New Zealander to have taken a dozen wickets in a Test on two occasions.

Vettori is the first left-arm spinner in cricket history to take 300+ wickets in both ODIs and Tests. He was also the first left-arm spinner in test history to capture 350 test wickets. He's now the second leading wicket-taker in test history as a left-arm spinner with a haul of 362 wickets just behind Rangana Herath.[6] He's the youngest test cricketer to capture 100 test wickets at the age of 21.[7]

He is the bowler to have most frequently dismissed Shane Warne in Tests, getting him out nine times, most notably for 99 in a Test at Perth. Ironically, in the 1st Test against Pakistan in 2009–10 season, Vettori was himself dismissed for 99,[8] while chasing a world record in centuries batting from position number 8. He is also the leading runscorer in test history when batting at number 8 position or lower (2227 runs)[9] Daniel Vettori also has scored most number of test tons when batting at number 8 position(4)[10]

For his performances in 2005, 2008 and 2010 he was named in the World ODI XI by the ICC.[11][12] He was also named in the World ODI XI and T20I XI by Cricinfo for 2007 and ODI XI for 2008.[13][14]

He was named in the 'Team of the Tournament' for the 2015 World Cup by the ICC.[15] He was also named in the 'Team of the tournament' by Cricinfo and Cricbuzz.[16][17]

Captaincy

Prior to becoming captain on a permanent basis in 2007, Vettori had captained the Black Caps in ODI cricket on occasions such as when regular captain Stephen Fleming was not available. As of the end of 2006, he had led New Zealand in 11 games, winning eight of them.

He captained New Zealand at the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa.[18] Subsequently, it was announced that Vettori would captain the Black Caps in all forms of the game: Twenty20s, ODIs and Tests. Initially, he was announced to be captain only of the former two.[19]

His spell of 4 for 20 against India was named as the fourth-best T20I bowling performance of the year by ESPNCricinfo voters.[20] He was named in the 'Team of the Tournament' by ESPNCricinfo for the 2007 T20I World Cup.[21]

Vettori's captaincy had a rocky start, losing a Test series in England first up. Vettori also attracted some criticism in the following ODI series when he engaged in angry shouting from the balcony at The Oval, regarding a controversial run out that had occurred. He then refused to shake hands with the England team after the match.[22] This contrasted with Fleming's more languid, laid back style.[23]

Vettori stood down from the captaincy and retired from One day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals after the 2011 World Cup. However, he was called back into the ODI team for the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. His name is included in the final 15 of the New Zealand team for the 2015 Cricket World Cup to be held in Australia and New Zealand.[24] By that point, he retired from test cricket after his final test match was as an emergency injury cover against Pakistan in November 2014.

Batting

Vettori matured into a useful lower-order batsman, having scored 4,000 Test runs, including six centuries (110 against Pakistan in 2011, 134 against Pakistan 2009, 140 against Sri Lanka 2009, 138* against Pakistan in 2003, 127 against Zimbabwe in 2005 and 118 against India in 2009) as well as 23 half-centuries. Although it took Vettori 47 Tests to score his first 1,000 runs at an average of 17.24, the second thousand took him just 22 Tests at a rate of 42.52 per innings.

In December 2006, Vettori began establishing himself as more of an all-rounder, batting at number 5 for New Zealand in the one-day series against Sri Lanka.

On 4 December 2009, despite the Black Caps only scoring 99 runs against Pakistan, Vettori became the highest Test run scorer batting at no.8 spot, a record previously held by Shane Warne.

After suffering a dip in form of batting in 2010 Vettori scored a century against Pakistan when he made 110 as New Zealand's lower order resisted to help post a total of 356 all out.[25] Vettori averages a career 30.60 but his average jumps to 57.9 against Pakistan against whom he has three of his six centuries.

In July 2014, he played for the MCC side in the Bicentenary Celebration match at Lord's.[26]

Coaching career

He was head coach for Royal Challengers Bangalore from 2014 to 2018. In July 2019, Vettori was appointed as the head coach of the Dublin Chiefs for the inaugural edition of the Euro T20 Slam cricket tournament.[27] Bangladesh Cricket Board have announced the appointment of Daniel Vettori as their spin bowling coach, on 27 July 2019.[28]

Personal life

Vettori is of Italian origin.[29][30] He is married to Mary O'Carroll (2007), with whom he has three children. He moved from Hamilton to Auckland to live with her but has continued playing for the Northern Districts Knights.[31] They have a son named James[32] (born 8 March 2009).[33] Vettori was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to cricket.[34] Vettori is the first cousin of David Hill, a rugby union player who played in one Test for the All Blacks.[35]

A biography of Vettori was published in August 2008.[36]

References

1. "Vettori confident of fruitful outing". Deccan Herald. 2 April 2012.
2. "New Zealand's Daniel Vettori retires from international cricket". BBC Sport. BBC Sport. 31 March 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015.
3. Cricket Masterclass (26 October 2017), Daniel Vettori Masterclass Watch former New Zealand spinner's demo Cricket News Sky Sports, retrieved 11 January 2018
4. Ackerman, Sam (27 August 2009). "Vettori joins cricket's elite 300 wicket, 3,000 run club". 3 News. Archived from the original on 5 September 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
5. "Records / New Zealand / One-Day Internationals / Most wickets". Cricinfo. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
6. "Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh, 1st Test: Rangana Herath surpassed Daniel Vettori's world record". AFP via Firstpost. 11 March 2017.
7. "Vettori's interesting records and facts". cricket country. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
8. "Scorecard: New Zealand v Pakistan, 1st Test at Dunedin, 24–28 November 2009". Cricinfo. Retrieved 6 December 2009.
9. "Most runs at each batting position". Howstat. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
10. "Most hundreds at each batting position". Howstat. Retrieved 17 March 2017.
11. "Ponting leads ODI Team of Year". Cricinfo. 10 September 2008.
12. "Ponting named to lead ODI team of the year". Cricinfo. 6 October 2010.
13. "Mainly Aussie". Cricinfo. 3 January 2008.
14. "Raucous and freakish". Cricinfo. 3 January 2009.
15. Bilton, Dean (30 March 2015). "World Cup team of the tournament revealed". ABC News.
16. "NZ 5, Australia 4 in our World Cup team". Cricinfo. 30 March 2015.
17. "ICC Cricket World Cup 2015: Cricbuzz team of the tournament". Cricbuzz.
18. Leggat, David (10 August 2007). "Vettori for captain as Fleming hits 145". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
19. "Changing of the guard for Black Caps". TVNZ. 12 September 2007. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
20. http://www.espncricinfo.com/awards/content/story/334026.html
21. "The chosen ones". Cricinfo. 25 September 2007.
22. "NZ snub England". The Sydney Morning Herald. 26 June 2008. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
23. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 7 September 2008. Retrieved 24 April 2011.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
24. Grant Elliott in, Jimmy Neesham out for New Zealand | Cricket. ESPNcricinfo (8 January 2015). Retrieved on 27 May 2018.
25. New Zealand v Pakistan: Daniel Vettori dazzles with ton on batsmen's day | Cricket. ESPNcricinfo (16 January 2011). Retrieved on 27 May 2018.
26. "MCC v Rest of the World – 5 July". Lord's. 5 July 2014. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 5 July 2014.
27. "Eoin Morgan to represent Dublin franchise in inaugural Euro T20 Slam". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
28. "Bangladesh appoint Langeveldt, Vettori as bowling coaches". Cricbuzz. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
29. "Daniel Vettori's parents remember his Test debut and the days before it". ESPN Cricinfo. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
30. "Daniel Vettori Profile". Blackcaps. Archived from the original on 29 March 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
31. "Vettori to marry girlfriend, move to Auckland". The New Zealand Herald. 6 May 2007. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
32. "What the Kiwi gossip mags say". stuff.co.nz. 7 April 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
33. "Baby boy for Vettori". The New Zealand Herald. 9 March 2009. Retrieved 27 August 2009.
34. "The Queen's Birthday Honours 2011". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. 6 June 2011. Retrieved 6 June 2011.
35. "'I had two cups of tea in my hands and they were shaking'". ESPNcricinfo. 26 March 2010. Retrieved 31 January 2012.
36. Boock, R. (2008) Daniel Vettori:Turning Point, Hodder Moa ISBN 1-86971-133-5

External links

• Daniel Vettori at ESPNcricinfo
• Daniel Vettori BLACKCAPS profile

Sporting positions
Preceded by Stephen Fleming	New Zealand national cricket captain 2007–2011	Succeeded by Ross Taylor