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Sir Richard Hadlee
Legendary Cricket Star
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Sir Richard Hadlee is the greatest cricketers of all time. His highly publicized career, prolific after dinner speaker commitments and national coaching support marked him as both an icon and idol for New Zealand cricket fans. Richard expresses his life story in sport and draws parallels with today’s business challenges.
His inspiring interactive presentation as a cricket speaker includes discussions on his successes, failures, disappointments and life's challenges (heart surgery). Richard talks about what drove him including pride, rewards, being the best, emotions, role models, determination to prove a point when one's professionalism is questioned? Setting goals, and having no complacency.
A bowling all-rounder, in an 86-Test career he took 431 wickets (at the time the world record), and was the first bowler to pass 400 wickets, with an average of 22.29, and made 3124 Test runs at 27.16, including two centuries and 15 fifties. Hadlee is rated by many experts as the greatest exponent of bowling with the new ball.
He was the master of (conventional) swing and was the original Sultan of Swing. Along with Malcolm Marshall, Hadlee was seen as the finest fast bowler of his time, despite the contemporaneous presence of Dennis Lillee, Imran Khan, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Kapil Dev and Wasim Akram among others. Sir Richard Hadlee played in 86 test matches for New Zealand over an eighteen year period. When he captured his 374th test wicket on the 12th of November 1988 against India in Bangalore, he became the world record holder. He went on to become one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of the game, as he captured 431 test wickets & scored over 3000 test runs. Hadlee was appointed MBE in 1980 and knighted in 1990 for services to cricket.
He is a former chairman of the New Zealand board of selectors. He is regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers and all-rounders in cricketing history.
In December 2002, he was chosen by Wisden as the second greatest Test bowler of all time. In March 2009, Hadlee was commemorated as one of the Twelve Local Heroes, and a bronze bust of him was unveiled outside the Christchurch Arts Centre. On 3 April 2009, Sir Richard Hadlee was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Motto in Life "A quitter never wins and a winner never quits". Always give it go. You will never know until you have tried and given it your best.
Who am I
Sir Richard Hadlee is the greatest cricketers of all time. His highly publicized career, prolific after dinner speaker commitments and national coaching support marked him as both an icon and idol for New Zealand cricket fans. Richard expresses his life story in sport and draws parallels with today’s business challenges.
His inspiring interactive presentation as a cricket speaker includes discussions on his successes, failures, disappointments and life's challenges (heart surgery). Richard talks about what drove him including pride, rewards, being the best, emotions, role models, determination to prove a point when one's professionalism is questioned? Setting goals, and having no complacency.
A bowling all-rounder, in an 86-Test career he took 431 wickets (at the time the world record), and was the first bowler to pass 400 wickets, with an average of 22.29, and made 3124 Test runs at 27.16, including two centuries and 15 fifties. Hadlee is rated by many experts as the greatest exponent of bowling with the new ball.
He was the master of (conventional) swing and was the original Sultan of Swing. Along with Malcolm Marshall, Hadlee was seen as the finest fast bowler of his time, despite the contemporaneous presence of Dennis Lillee, Imran Khan, Andy Roberts, Michael Holding, Joel Garner, Kapil Dev and Wasim Akram among others. Sir Richard Hadlee played in 86 test matches for New Zealand over an eighteen year period. When he captured his 374th test wicket on the 12th of November 1988 against India in Bangalore, he became the world record holder. He went on to become one of the greatest all-rounders in the history of the game, as he captured 431 test wickets & scored over 3000 test runs. Hadlee was appointed MBE in 1980 and knighted in 1990 for services to cricket.
He is a former chairman of the New Zealand board of selectors. He is regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers and all-rounders in cricketing history.
In December 2002, he was chosen by Wisden as the second greatest Test bowler of all time. In March 2009, Hadlee was commemorated as one of the Twelve Local Heroes, and a bronze bust of him was unveiled outside the Christchurch Arts Centre. On 3 April 2009, Sir Richard Hadlee was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.
Motto in Life "A quitter never wins and a winner never quits". Always give it go. You will never know until you have tried and given it your best.
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