New Zealand’s extraordinary ex. cricketer Richard Hadlee was the one who spotted a young Lou Vincent, who got involved with bookies later.Lou Vincent couldn’t imagine a night when Sir Richard Hadlee, a New Zealand’s greatest cricketer, who handed over a commemorative cap for make a feature of century of ODIs, when the celebrity shed tears for a faculty he once unearthed; and when lastly, he could smile without a weighty in his heart.
The former cricketer, who was life banned due to match-fixing in last December, suffocated tears as he said : “Richard….for you to take time out and fly to Auckland to want to present this cap to me is so, so humbling and a reflection of the great man you are. Sir Richard Hadlee in tears! This night was really powerful.” Vincent couldn’t hold his tears back for long time.
Lou Vincent and Sir Richard Hadlee. (Image credit: Joey Yovich)
Since his last international game- which was 102nd ODI in December 2007- he has conduct several wars, mostly with himself. The same year, he joined the Indian cricket League (ICL).He acknowledged he got himself dragged into the sinister web of bookies and fixers, encouraged incredibly by his colleagues Chris Cairns. ” From that moment on, I was in a battle with myself,” he would acknowledge in a television interview.
He told stuff.co.nz ” It was a young and silly time in my life, and we all do things we regret, but I have owned it and turned my mistakes into a positive.”
One of his closest friend Andre Adams said to New Zealand Herald”Once you are in that network of (match-fixing), you are screwed. Lou have everything to lose -a wife along with two kids-and they do whatever it takes. They will take photos of you in compromising positions, they will threaten to realise them to the media, they will ruin your life,”