Daniel Vettori

Daniel Luca Vettori, ONZM 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 199697 at the age of 18, and New Zealands mostcapped test cricketer with 112 caps, and New Zealands most capped OneDay cricketer with 284 caps. Vettori was a bowling allrounder who bowled slow leftarm 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 aroundwhich 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 Banga

He was born in Auckland and brought up in Hamilton, attending Marian School and later St. Pauls 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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