Geoff Allott

[slippy888]

Why did he never became a cricketing star after being a leading wicket taker in the 1999 world cup?

 

[slippy888]

he just turn 50 this year lets hope he enjoying the retirement years

 

[Gob]

Thread closed

 

[SteveNZ]

Nah, leave it open. One of the great runs at the 1999 World Cup, matching Warney wicket for wicket by hooping the white Duke around corners. Also still (?) holds the record for the longest duck, 77 balls and 100 odd minutes. Really smart guy doing well in business post-cricket too.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

It just needs someone to say that had he been English he would have played over 150 Tests and taken over 600 wickets.

 

[Days of Grace]

Back issues meant that he was done 18 months after the 1999 World Cup. It was a real shame.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Wasn't much of a red-ball bowler from memory

Having said that if he was English he'd have 600 Test wickets

 

[Bahnz]

Was surprisingly ineffective with the red duke on the 99 tour, though iirc he only played a couple of tests. Certainly had an amazing purple path in 1999, he took a lot of wickets during the NZ v SA ODI series that preceded the WC too. Don’t think he played more than a couple of games after the tournament because of back injuries, so we’ll never know if he would've faded away or if he could’ve been NZ’s answer to Nathan Bracken.

One of the great runs at the 1999 World Cup, matching Warney wicket for wicket by hooping the white Duke around corners. Also still (?) holds the record for the longest duck, 77 balls and 100 odd minutes.

If memory serves, he absolutely bossed the group phase of the tournament (played in May), but once the competition progressed into June and the weather started warming up he was a lot less effective and only picked up a couple of wickets in his last few games. Still an amazing run.

Oh and that 100 minute duck was totally manufactured. There were at least 2 occasions where he pushed the ball into huge gaps on the onside and he easily could've run 2 or 3, but Chris Harris at the other end decided for whatever reason he wasn't interested.

 

[SteveNZ]

Was surprisingly ineffective with the red duke on the 99 tour, though iirc he only played a couple of tests. Certainly had an amazing purple path in 1999, he took a lot of wickets during the NZ v SA ODI series that preceded the WC too. Don’t think he played more than a couple of games after the tournament because of back injuries, so we’ll never know if he would've faded away or if he could’ve been NZ’s answer to Nathan Bracken.

If memory serves, he absolutely bossed the group phase of the tournament (played in May), but once the competition progressed into June and the weather started warming up he was a lot less effective and only picked up a couple of wickets in his last few games. Still an amazing run.

Oh and that 100 minute duck was totally manufactured. There were at least 2 occasions where he pushed the ball into huge gaps on the onside and he easily could've run 2 or 3, but Chris Harris at the other end decided for whatever reason he wasn't interested.

I read an article about the 1999 World Cup, he said something like someone had talked him up or talked him down as a pace bowler (can't remember which one) and he tried to bowl heat against Pakistan and bowled a bunch of crap, rather than sticking to swinging it which had proven so successful.

One of the other interesting things I remember about the 1999 World Cup is the bookies in England got absolutely taken to the cleaners with spread bets around the number of wides. Their line was way too low on the amount of wides bowled, someone got a sniff that it would be with the Dukes hooping and they printed money betting on the over line.

 

[TheJediBrah]

One of the other interesting things I remember about the 1999 World Cup is the bookies in England got absolutely taken to the cleaners with spread bets around the number of wides. Their line was way too low on the amount of wides bowled, someone got a sniff that it would be with the Dukes hooping and they printed money betting on the over line.

Love it

 

[Starfighter]

Something to do with a biomechanically inadvisable bowling action.

 

[jcas0167]

Pretty sure I recall when he first made the NZ side he didn't swing it back in to the right hander but he worked with Ashley Ross and managed to do that for the 99 WC.

Played in the Fill the Basin For Christchurch (earthquake relief) game in 2011 and took a stunning catch in the outfield.

 

[ankitj]

It just needs someone to say that had he been English he would have played over 150 Tests and taken over 600 wickets.

had he been English he would have played over 150 Tests and taken over 600 wickets

 

[DougieRydal]

Has had a very successful post cricket career, was on the board of NZC and is the CEO (co-owner) of a company that exports meat to India, investors includes Flem, McCullum, Vettori

 

[Neil Young]

I read an article about the 1999 World Cup, he said something like someone had talked him up or talked him down as a pace bowler (can't remember which one) and he tried to bowl heat against Pakistan and bowled a bunch of crap, rather than sticking to swinging it which had proven so successful.

One of the other interesting things I remember about the 1999 World Cup is the bookies in England got absolutely taken to the cleaners with spread bets around the number of wides. Their line was way too low on the amount of wides bowled, someone got a sniff that it would be with the Dukes hooping and they printed money betting on the over line.

Ha, I think it was Sporting Index who got nailed, and spread betting was in its infancy at that time. The spread was initially around 250 and there ended up being something like 1000 wides. Brutal.

I was in London at that time and my enduring memory is watching the Aus semi in a pub with a bunch of South Africans. Everyone was too stunned to speak for about 20 minutes after that.

 

[SteveNZ]

Ha, I think it was Sporting Index who got nailed, and spread betting was in its infancy at that time. The spread was initially around 250 and there ended up being something like 1000 wides. Brutal.

I was in London at that time and my enduring memory is watching the Aus semi in a pub with a bunch of South Africans. Everyone was too stunned to speak for about 20 minutes after that.

Yep that's as I remember it too. I reckon the modern-day betting agencies would somehow find a way to weasel out of paying. Such a disgraceful industry for many reasons, not least because they're happy for you to lose as much as you can, but if you win too much that's when you get cut off or not paid. Oh yeah, and please remember to gamble responsibly

 

[cnerd123]

Has had a very successful post cricket career, was on the board of NZC and is the CEO (co-owner) of a company that exports meat to India, investors includes Flem, McCullum, Vettori

this is why we have fast bowlers now

 

[Himannv]

Wasn't he the one who constantly had his socks spilling out of a hole in his shoe?