Daniel Vettori, the New Zealand test cricket captain, plays his 100th test tommorrow. This man is an absolute hero, a great bowler, in recent years a bloody good batsman. He is one of the great test cricket captains, shrewd, intelligent, tough and sporting.
Actually Fignon is probably the all time bespectacled sporting great. No disrespect to the great Dan Vettori but I think this could easily development into the favourite bespectacled sportsperson thread…
The weather is perfect for them anyway. They just got their second 50 of 7.1 oevrs so it’s a good start today. Although they are prone to capitulate at any moment so I’m not holding my breath…
Great century from Vettori to dig New Zealand out of a bit of a hole in Wellington. He’s gone through 4,000 test runs in this innings too. On 340 test wickets, you’d fancy him to ultimately join Kapil Dev as the only other test player with 4,000 runs & 400 wickets. That’s a feat that Ian Botham, Imran Khan, Gary Sobers or Richard Hadlee were unable to attain.