Richard Hadlee
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| Batting style | Left-handed batsman (LHB) | |
| Bowling type | Right-arm fast (RF) | |
| Tests | ODIs | |
| Matches | 86 | 115 |
| Runs scored | 3124 | 1751 |
| Batting average | 27.16 | 21.61 |
| 100s/50s | 2/15 | 0/4 |
| Top score | 151* | 79 |
| Overs bowled | 3653 | 1030.2 |
| Wickets | 431 | 158 |
| Bowling average | 22.29 | 21.56 |
| 5 wickets in innings | 36 | 5 |
| 10 wickets in match | 9 | N/A |
| Best bowling | 9/52 | 5/25 |
| Catches/stumpings | 39/0 | 27/0 |
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Sir Richard John Hadlee MBE (born July 3, 1951) is a former New Zealand cricketer.
He is the son of Walter Hadlee, and the brother of Dayle and Barry Hadlee.
Hadlee was knighted in 1990 for services to cricket, before his playing career had finished. He is currently the chairman of the New Zealand board of selectors.
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[edit] Test record
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.
[edit] Nottinghamshire career
For Nottinghamshire, on often overgrassed Trent Bridge pitches, he gained some analyses that are remarkable in an era of covered pitches, notably his eight for 22 against Surrey in 1984. He represented Nottinghamshire between 1978 and 1987, but played only three full seasons due to injuries and Test calls. However, his bowling figures for those three seasons were quite remarkable:
- 1981: 4252 balls, 231 maidens, 1564 runs, 105 wickets for 14.89 each.
- 1984: 4634 balls, 248 maidens, 1645 runs, 117 wickets for 14.05 each.
- 1987: 3408 balls, 186 maidens, 1154 runs, 97 wickets for 11.89 each (the lowest average since 1969).
[edit] Canterbury career
Because of seasonal differences, Hadlee also played provincial cricket in New Zealand, representing Canterbury. In recognition of his achievements, the north stand of Jade Stadium is named the Hadlee stand[citation needed], and New Zealand and Australia regularly compete in one-day matches for the Chappell-Hadlee trophy.
[edit] Bowling style
Hadlee was a right-arm pace bowler. Initially extremely fast, as the years progressed he gained accuracy, movement off the wicket and in the air, and a reputation that probably gained him quite a few wickets on its own. Perhaps his most potent delivery was the often unplayable outswinger, which became his main weapon in the latter stages of his career.
His economical action was notable for his close approach to the wicket at the bowler's end (to the point where he occasionally knocked the bails off in his approach), a line which meant he was able to trap many batsmen leg before wicket. He broke the Test-wicket taking record with his 374th wicket on 12 November, 1988. His 400th Test wicket was claimed on 4 February 1990, and with his last Test delivery, on 9 July, 1990, he dismissed Devon Malcolm for a duck.
[edit] Batting style
His middle-order batting was usually aggressive and enterprising, and, oddly enough, left-handed. Though he often failed badly against top bowlers, he was extremely effective at punishing lesser attacks, enough to score 15 Test fifties and two Test centuries, and so much so that for Nottinghamshire in 1984, 1986 and 1987 he averaged over 50 (only W.G. Grace and George Herbert Hirst have come comparably close to heading both batting and bowling averages in a season).
| Bowlers who have taken 400 Test wickets |
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Shane Warne (AUS) | Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) | | Glenn McGrath (AUS) | Anil Kumble (IND) | Courtney Walsh (WI) |
| Cricketers who have achieved the 'All-rounder's Triple' (3000 runs/300 wickets) in Test matches |
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Ian Botham 72 Tests | Richard Hadlee 83 Tests | Imran Khan 75 Tests | Kapil Dev 83 Tests | Shaun Pollock 87 Tests | Shane Warne 142 Tests |
| Cricketers who have achieved the 'All-rounder's Double' (2000 runs/200 wickets) in Test matches |
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Wasim Akram 78 Tests | Richie Benaud 60 Tests | Ian Botham 42 Tests | Chris Cairns 58 Tests | Sir Richard Hadlee 54 Tests |
| Bowlers who have taken 5 wickets in a Test innings 25 times or more |
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Muttiah Muralitharan (SL) | Richard Hadlee (NZ) | Anil Kumble (IND) |
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