Geoff Allott

After Jack Leach's heroics at Headingley, we look back at half-a-dozen other unlikely batting heroes

Andrew McGlashan, an ESPNcricinfo deputy editor in Sydney, picks his all-time New Zealand World Cup XI

Former Test cricketers Richard Hadlee, Martin Snedden and Geoff Allott have been elected in the New Zealand Cricket board of directors

In a slow cricket news week in New Zealand, Martin Snedden and Geoff Allott's possible return to administrative roles is the talk of the town

Former Test cricketers Richard Hadlee, Martin Snedden and Geoff Allott are among eight recommended people likely to be voted in as NZC's new board of directors

Geoff Allott has resigned from New Zealand Cricket (NZC) in the wake of the team's disastrous tour of Bangladesh, where they lost the one-day series 4-0

New Zealand Cricket has confirmed that Ross Taylor will have a more senior role with the national team, naming him as a 'stand-by' captain for the upcoming Bangladesh and Australia series

After hiring the inventor of the doosra coach them, New Zealand have drafted in a teenage bowler, Maurice Holmes, to help them prepare for the Tests against Sri Lanka

Why does New Zealand produce so many fast bowlers who promise the moon and then break down with injury and vanish off the scene?

Zaheer Khan is just one in a long recent line of left-armer seamers to have been plagued by injury

Geoff Allott, the former New Zealand fast bowler, has been appointed the general manager of cricket with New Zealand Cricket

Left-arm fast bowler Geoff Allott will be restricting his cricket to the limited overs variety only this summer

Geoff Allott might have shared the honours with Shane Warne as the best bowlers of the 1999 World Cup but it's been a long haul for Allott to get himself back into the fitness frame to pick up his career

Geoff Allott, without doubt, has been the success story of the World Cup for New Zealand

Geoff Allott has enjoyed socking it to the opposition at the cricket World Cup

World longest duck record holder Geoff Allott is involved in an intriguing contest, whether he will collect 100 wickets or 100 runs first in first-class cricket

GODFREY EVANS, now 78, sent warm congratulations to Geoff Allott last night as the former Kent and England wicketkeeper was finally relieved of his slow scoring record