Richard Boock believes that Dan Vettori might be the key to New Zealand beating the West Indies. He might be right given that if the ball is ever going to turn in New Zealand it will be in late summer. In the Dominion-Post another spinner, Jeetan Patel, expresses similar optimism.
In his article Boock quotes an old yarn which appears in several different spin bowling autobiographies, but specifies that it belongs to one particular New Zealand left-arm spinner. Interestingly the first time I read it the storyteller (and victim) was Richard's brother Stephen...
Tuesday, 14 February 2006
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Hmm, I've _never_ heard this quote in any context other than Greg Thomas v Viv Richards.
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