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Daniel Vettori New Zealand (NZ)
Batting style	Left-handed batsman (LHB)
Bowling type	Slow left-arm orthodox (SLA)
	Tests	ODIs
Matches	73	195
Runs scored	2250	1270
Batting average	25.28	15.11
100s/50s	2/13	-/3
Top score	137*	83
Balls bowled	17585	9139
Wickets	229	195
Bowling average	34.28	33.00
5 wickets in innings	13	1
10 wickets in match	3	n/a
Best bowling	7/87	5/30
Catches/stumpings	36/-	53/-
As of March 30, 2007 Source: Cricinfo.com

Daniel Luca Vettori (born 27 January 1979, Auckland, New Zealand), but brought up in Hamilton attending St Paul's Collegiate School, is a cricketer who plays Test cricket for New Zealand. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996/1997 at the age of 18. Vettori is a slow left-arm orthodox spinner, but he is known for his flight and guile rather than prodigious turn or pinpoint accuracy.

Contents 1 International career 2 Bowling Records 3 Captaincy 4 Batting 5 External links

Vettori made his test debut at Wellington for New Zealand against England on February 6 1997. His first Test wicket was Nasser Hussain. Three weeks earlier he had made his first class debut, against the touring English side and again his maiden wicket was Hussain. His ODI debut came a month later against Sri Lanka at Christchurch on March 25th 1997.

His career was in jeopardy in 2000 with a back injury, but he recovered to play a major role in New Zealand's victory in the 2004 Tri-Series with England and the West Indies in England.

Vettori was recently selected in the final squad for the World XI super series against Australia.

On 10 November 2005, Vettori was ranked 5th on the ICC Player Rankings for Test all-rounders and 8th for one-day bowlers.

He took his 200th Test wicket in Zimbabwe in 2005, becoming only the third New Zealand bowler (after Richard Hadlee and Chris Cairns) to pass that mark [1], and he is currently placed third on the all-time New Zealand table for most ODI wickets[2].

Vettori has three 10 wicket hauls in Test cricket, against Sri Lanka, Australia and Bangladesh. His best innings figures were achieved at Auckland in 1999/00 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 has dismissed Shane Warne the most in Tests, getting him out nine times.

He has captained the Black Caps in ODI cricket on occasions such as when regular captain, Stephen Fleming, was unable to. As of he end of 2006 he had led New Zealand in 11 games, winning 8 of them. He is currently the vice-captain for the side as well as Warwickshire.

Vettori has matured into a useful lower-order batsman having scored 2,000 Test runs, including two centuries (137* against Pakistan in 2003 and 127 against Zimbabwe in 2005), as well as several 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. Vettori's average batting at number 8 is 37.11 (for Tests) and is currently the best average of all time for a player batting there. [3]. His average at number ten is 3rd best of all time in ODIs.

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.

• Player Profile: Daniel Vettori from Cricinfo
• ICC Player Rankings

Preceded by Stephen Fleming

New Zealand national cricket captain 2005/6

Succeeded by Stephen Fleming

Cricketers who have achieved the 'All-rounder's Double' (2000 runs/200 wickets) in Test matches
Wasim Akram 78 Tests | Richie Benaud 60 Tests | Ian Botham 42 Tests | Chris Cairns 58 Tests |Sir Richard Hadlee 54 Tests Jacques Kallis 102 Tests | Kapil Dev 50 Tests | Imran Khan 50 Tests | Anil Kumble 110 Tests | Shaun Pollock 56 Tests Sir Garfield Sobers 80 Tests | Chaminda Vaas 82 Tests | Daniel Vettori 69 Tests | Shane Warne 100 Tests

	New Zealand squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup
1 Fleming | 2 Adams | 3 Astle | 4 Bond | 5 Cairns | 6 Harris | 7 McCullum | 8 McMillan | 9 Mills | 10 Oram | 11 Sinclair | 12 Styris | 13 Tuffey | 14 Vettori | 15 Vincent

	New Zealand squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup
1 Fleming | 2 Vettori | 3 Bond | 4 Franklin | 5 Fulton | 6 Gillespie | 7 McCullum | 8 McMillan | 9 Marshall | 10 Martin | 11 Mason | 12 Oram | 13 Patel | 14 Styris | 15 Taylor | 16 Tuffey | 17 Vincent | Coach: Bracewell Tuffey and Vincent were injured during the tournament and replaced in the squad by Martin and Marshall respectively.