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Daniel Luca Vettori is a New Zealand cricket coach and former cricketer, born on 27 January 1979 in Auckland and raised in Hamilton, who played for the New Zealand national cricket team. He made his Test debut in February 1997 at the age of 18, at the time the youngest man to play Test cricket for New Zealand, and became New Zealand's most capped Test and One Day International cricketer with 112 Test caps and 291 ODI caps. A slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler and bowling all-rounder, he was the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs, and he captained New Zealand between 2007 and 2011. He was part of the New Zealand squad that finished runners-up at the 2015 Cricket World Cup, after which he retired, and he is an inductee of the New Zealand Cricket Hall of Fame.

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former cricketer who played for the New Zealand national cricket team
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    born 27 January 1979
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    He was the 200th player to win their Test cricket cap for New Zealand
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    former cricketer who played for the New Zealand national cricket team
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    former cricketer who played for the New Zealand national cricket team
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    He was also a part of the New Zealand squad to finish as runners-up at the 2015 Cricket World Cup
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