John Wright

Trivia

• Currently, John Wright is serving New Zealand Cricket in various capacities.
• In 2006, John authored the book "John Wright's Indian Summers" describing his experiences as coach of the Indian Cricket Team along with Indian journalist Sharda Ugra and Paul Thomas.
• In 1990 together with New Zealand writer Paul Thomas he wrote an entertaining autobiography 'Christmas in Rarotonga'.
• Wright was also appointed as coach of the World XI team that played Australia in the ICC Super Series 2005.
• After retiring, Wright worked in sales for around two years - self-confessedly without great success.
• He has also scored over 10,000 runs in List A limited overs cricket.
• In first-class cricket he scored over 25,000 runs, having scored over 50 first-class centuries.
• During his career, he scored over 5,000 Test runs at an average of 37.82 runs per dismissal with 12 Test centuries, 10 of them in New Zealand.
• He made his international debut in 1978 against England.
• John Wright is a former international cricketer representing - and captaining - New Zealand, and, following his retirement in 1993, coaching the Indian national cricket team from 2000 to 2005.

Quotes

• “The strength of the Canadian dollar and its impact on manufacturing and exports, plus the ascendancy of China and India as major global economic players, may be putting a degree of caution into the air.”
• “Each time something came out, you was wondering, 'Is it going to be another 25 years?' It was just a strange situation.”
• “Our family pleads with this board and Governor Daniels to go through with and uphold this death penalty.”
• “What they were proposing was something huge. We need to be in tune with and sensitive to a lot of things in managing these parks efficiently and effectively -- and we answer to the taxpayers.”
• “I traveled 15 feet and lost a $7,000 diamond wedding ring. They looked on the ground and conveyer belt. Nothing. I thought I was in a secure area.”
• “Singe worked selflessly for the club for five-and-a-half years.”
• “You talk about your history and our history and we try to narrow the gap. The relationship that should be the strongest should be with the Jewish community and the African-American community.”
• “Retirement is no longer a fixed point in time. What people are saying is that retirement is finishing one part of their life in order to have the freedom to choose what they want to do with the rest of their life.”
• “It is a work in progress.”
• “For a restructuring of the balance sheet, the price seems quite high.”