By DPA
Wellington : Daniel Vettori was appointed captain of the New Zealand Test team Wednesday, taking over from Stephen Fleming, who also announced his retirement from one-day international cricket.
The 34-year-old Fleming, New Zealand’s most successful captain with 28 wins and 25 draws from 80 Test matches over the past 10 years, said he would continue to play Tests.
New Zealand Cricket chief executive Justin Vaughan announced that the 28-year-old Vettori, who had already succeeded Fleming as the ODI skipper, would also take over the Test captaincy in the Black Caps’ upcoming tour of South Africa.
He said Vettori had demonstrated leadership and shown he was ready to take over as the Black Caps captain in all forms of the game.
Fleming said he would have liked to remain captain of the Test team but understood why the selectors preferred to have a single captain for Test, ODI and Twenty20 teams.
Fleming played 279 ODIs for the Black Caps, scoring 8,007 runs, the highest by any New Zealand batsman.
Left-arm spinner Vettori is one of only two New Zealand players to have taken 200 wickets in both Tests and ODIs and to have completed the 200-wicket, 2,000-run double in Test cricket.