Daniel Vettori

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.
Vettori announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket following the 2015 Cricket World Cup. On April 2, 2015, Vettori signed a 3-year contract to become head coach of Brisbane Heat, effectively ending his playing career in all forms of the game.

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 and he is currently New Zealand's leading ODI wicket-taker.

Vettori has three 10 wicket hauls in Test cricket, against Sri Lanka, Australia and Bangladesh. His best innings figures were achieved at 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.

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, while chasing a world record in centuries batting from position number 8.

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. 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.

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. This contrasted with Fleming's more languid, laid back style.

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. By that point, he retired from test cricket after his final test match was as an emergency injury cover against Pakistan in November, 2014.

Vettori has 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. 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.

• In the column Runs, * indicates being not out.
• The column title Match refers to the Match Number of his career.

Batting

Test centuries

No.	Runs	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	137*	49	Pakistan	Hamilton, New Zealand	Seddon Park	2003	Drawn
2	127	63	Zimbabwe	Harare, Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club	2005	Won
3	118	90	India	Hamilton, New Zealand	Seddon Park	2009	Lost
4	140	94	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club	2009	Lost
5	134	97	Pakistan	Napier, New Zealand	McLean Park	2009	Drawn
6	110	105	Pakistan	Wellington, New Zealand	Basin Reserve	2011	Drawn

Bowling

Test five-wicket hauls

Daniel Vettori's Test 5-Wicket Hauls
No.	Figures	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	5–84	4	Sri Lanka	Hamilton, New Zealand	Seddon Park	1997	Won
2	6–64	14	Sri Lanka	Colombo, Sri Lanka	Sinhalese Sports Club	1998	Lost
3	6–127	25	India	Kanpur, India	Green Park	1999	Lost
4	5–62	29	Australia	Auckland, New Zealand	Eden Park	2000	Lost
5	7–87
6	5–138	33	Australia	Hobart, Australia	Bellerive Oval	2001	Drawn
7	6–87	34	Australia	Perth, Australia	W.A.C.A. Ground	2001	Drawn
8	6–28	56	Bangladesh	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Bangabandhu National Stadium	2004	Won
9	6–70	57	Bangladesh	Chittagong, Bangladesh	MA Aziz Stadium	2004	Won
10	6–100
11	5–152	59	Australia	Adelaide, Australia	Adelaide Oval	2004	Lost
12	5–106	60	Australia	Christchurch, New Zealand	AMI Stadium	2005	Lost
13	7–130	73	Sri Lanka	Wellington, New Zealand	Basin Reserve	2006	Lost
14	5–69	81	England	London, England, United Kingdom	Lord's	2008	Drawn
15	5–66	82	England	Manchester, England, United Kingdom	Old Trafford	2008	Lost
16	5–59	84	Bangladesh	Chittagong, Bangladesh	Zohur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium	2008	Won
17	5–66	85	Bangladesh	Dhaka, Bangladesh	Shere Bangla National Stadium	2008	Drawn
18	6–56	88	West Indies	Dunedin, New Zealand	University Oval	2008	Drawn

ODI five-wicket hauls

Daniel Vettori's One Day International 5-Wicket Hauls
No.	Figures	Match	Against	City/Country	Venue	Year	Result
1	5–30	137	West Indies	London, England, United Kingdom	Lord's	2004	Won
2	5–7	210	Bangladesh	Queenstown, New Zealand	Queenstown Events Centre	2007	Won

Test Awards

Player of the Series Awards

S No	Opponent	Man of Match Awards	Date	Series Performance	Result
1	England	Match 1: Lord's, London	May – Jun 2008	Runs: 61 (149 balls: 7×4), Ave – 12.20, SR – 40.94 Field: 117.2–20–323–12, Ave – 26.92, SR – 58.67	Lost; 0–2
2	Bangladesh	Match 1: Chittagong Divisional Stadium, Chittagong Match 2: Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	Oct 2008	Runs: 153 (329 balls: 16×4, 1x6), Ave – 76.50, SR – 46.50 Field: 97–34–199–14, 3 catches, Ave – 14.21, SR – 41.57	Won; 1–0

Man of the Match Awards

S No	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match Performance	Result
1	Sri Lanka	Seddon Park, Hamilton	14–17 Mar 1997	1st Innings: 4 (12 balls: 1×4); 24–8–46–4 2nd Innings: 6 (36 balls); 29.2–8–84–5	Won
2	Australia	Eden Park, Auckland	11–15 Mar 2000	1st Innings: 25–8–62–5; 15* (22 balls: 2x4) 2nd Innings: 35–11–87–7; 0 (4 balls)	Lost
3	Australia	WACA, Perth	30 Nov–4 Dec 2001	1st Innings: 2 (3 balls); 34.4–7–87–6 2nd Innings: 3 (7 balls); 45–11–142–2, 1 catch, 1 run-out	Draw
4	Zimbabwe	Harare Sports Club, Harare	7–8 Aug 2005	1st Innings: 127 (98 balls: 20x4, 2x6); 2.4–2–1–2 2nd Innings: 13.5–4–28–4, 2 catches	Won
5	Bangladesh	Basin Reserve, Wellington	12–14 Jan 2008	1st Innings: 2.3–0–10–1; 94 (87 balls: 17x4) 2nd Innings: 1–0–3–0	Won
6	England	Lord's, London	15–19 May 2008	1st Innings: 48 (100 balls: 6x4); 22.3–4–69–5 2nd Innings: 0* (2 balls)	Draw
7	Bangladesh	Chittagong Divisional Stadium, Chittagong	17–21 Oct 2008	1st Innings: 36–15–59–5, 1 catch; 55* (82 balls: 7x4) 2nd Innings: 42–13–74–4, 1 catch; 76 (213 balls: 7x4)	Won
8	Bangladesh	Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur	25–29 Oct 2008	1st Innings: 22 (34 balls: 2x4, 1x6); 19–6–66–5, 1 catch 2nd Innings: DNB	Draw
9	Pakistan	McLean Park, Napier	11–15 Dec 2009	1st Innings: 8–0–35–0; 134 (186 balls: 12x4, 1x6) 2nd Innings: 56–25–93–2; DNB	Draw
10	Zimbabwe	Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo	1–5 Nov 2011	1st Innings: 40 (58 balls: 5x4, 1x6); 43–13–70–5 2nd Innings: 31 (42 balls: 3x4); 38.1–14–71–3	Won

ODI Awards

Player of the Series Awards

S No	Opponent	Man of Match Awards	Date	Series Performance	Result
1	Australia	N/A	Dec 2004	Runs: 33 (36 balls: 2×4), Ave – 33.00, SR – 91.67 Field: 20–2–67–4, Ave – 16.75, Econ – 3.35	Draw; 1–1

ODI Man of the Match

S No	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match Performance	Result
1	Zimbabwe	Eden Park, Auckland	8 March 1998	21 (13 balls: 2x4, 1x6); 10–1–29–3	Won
2	West Indies	Owen Delany Park, Taupo	4 January 2000	8–1–24–4, 2 catches; DNB	Won
3	Sri Lanka	Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium, Dambulla	19 May 2003	DNB; 10–4–14–4	Won
4	West Indies	Lord's, London	10 July 2004	6 (7 balls); 9.2–1–30–5, 2 run-outs	Won
5	West Indies	Queenstown Events Centre, Otago	22 February 2006	10–1–28–1; 53* (56 balls: 3x4)	Won
6	Bangladesh	Queenstown Events Centre, Otago	31 December 2007	6–2–7–5; DNB	Won
7	West Indies	Westpac Stadium, Wellington	7 January 2009	10–3–20–4; DNB	Won
8	Sri Lanka	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	27 September 2009	48 (44 balls: 4x4, 1x6); 10–0–45–2, 1 catch, 1 run-out	Won
9	Pakistan	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	3 October 2009	10–2–43–3; 41 (42 balls: 3x4)	Won
10	Australia	Eden Park, Auckland	6 March 2010	10–0–43–2, 1 catch; 70 (49 balls: 8x4, 2x6)	Lost
11	Afghanistan	McLean Park, Napier	8 March 2015	10–4–18–4, 1 catch; DNB	Won

Twenty20 International Awards

Player of the Series Awards

S No	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match Performance	Result
1	Sri Lanka	N/A	May 2010	48 (40 balls: 3x4); 6–0–21–1	Draw; 1–1

Man of the Match Awards

S No	Opponent	Venue	Date	Match Performance	Result
1	India	New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	16 September 2007	15 (5 balls: 3x4); 4–0–20–4, 2 catches, 1 run-out	Won
2	Sri Lanka	R. Premadasa Stadium, Colombo	2 September 2009	0 (1 ball); 4–0–11–2	Won
3	Bangladesh	Seddon Park, Hamilton	3 February 2010	4–1–6–3; DNB	Won

Vettori is of Italian origin. 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. They have a son named James (born 8 March 2009). Vettori was made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to cricket. Vettori is the first cousin of David Hill, a rugby union player who played in one Test for the All Blacks.

A biography of Vettori was published in August 2008.