Walter Hadlee
New Zealand cricketer
Died when: 91 years 117 days (1095 months)Star Sign: Gemini
Walter Arnold Hadlee CBE (4 June 1915 – 29 September 2006) was a New Zealand cricketer and Test match captain.He played domestic first-class cricket for Canterbury and Otago.
Three of his five sons, Sir Richard, Dayle and Barry played cricket for New Zealand.The Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, which is competed for by ODI teams from New Zealand and Australia is named in honour of the Hadlee family and the Australian Chappell family.
Hadlee captained one of New Zealand's most highly regarded teams, the 1949 side which toured England in an era when New Zealand had yet to win a Test.
As an administrator, he guided New Zealand cricket in the mid-1970s during years of increasing professionalism, the Kerry Packer threat and the sporting boycott of South Africa.
He was awarded the Bert Sutcliffe Medal in 2001.
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