Daniel Kyle Morrison (born 3 February 1966) is a New Zealand cricket commentator and former

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...

er. He specialised as a pace bowler with a useful

outswinger An outswinger is a type of delivery of the ball in the sport of cricket. In such a delivery the ball curves—or "swings"—out and away from the batter's body and the wicket. By contrast, an inswinger swings in toward the batter and the wicket. ...

. He made his test debut for New Zealand in 1987 at the age of 21 against Australia.

International career

His most notable bowling accomplishment occurred on 25 March 1994, when he took a

hat-trick A hat-trick or hat trick is the achievement of a generally positive feat three times in a match, or another achievement based on the number three. Origin The term first appeared in 1858 in cricket, to describe H. H. Stephenson taking three wic ...

in a One Day International (ODI) against

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

. He is one of only three New Zealanders and twenty-two players worldwide to have taken an ODI hat-trick. On 28 January 1997, Morrison made his final appearance for his national team, and contributed 14 runs in a 106-run partnership with Nathan Astle for the tenth wicket against England, to save the match. He was dropped from the team after the match. During his international career, Morrison played for New Zealand in three Cricket World Cups - 1987, 1992 and 1996.

After cricket

Since his departure from international cricket, Morrison has been employed in numerous cricket-related positions. These include: * Commentator on TVNZ,

Sky Sports Sky Sports is a group of British subscription sports channels operated by the satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It ...

and

Fox Sports Fox Sports is the brand name for a number of sports channels, broadcast divisions, programming, and other media around the world. The ''Fox Sports'' name has since been used for other sports media assets. These assets are held mainly by the F ...

* Commentator on the

Indian Premier League The Indian Premier League (IPL), also known as TATA IPL for sponsorship reasons, is a men's T20 franchise cricket league of India. It is annually contested by ten teams based out of seven Indian cities and three Indian states. The leagu ...

* Commentator on the Bangladesh Premier League * Commentator on the

Pakistan Super League The Pakistan Super League (PSL) is a professional Twenty20 cricket league contested during February and March of every year by six teams representing six cities of Pakistan. The league was founded on 9 September 2015 with five teams by the Paki ...

* Commentator on the

Caribbean Premier League The Caribbean Premier League (abbreviated to CPL or CPLT20) is an annual Twenty20 cricket tournament held in the Caribbean. It was founded by Cricket West Indies in 2013 to replace the Caribbean Twenty20 as the premier Twenty20 competition in ...

* Host of Sky Sports "Cricket Company" show for 7 years * Host of radio show on

Radio Sport Radio Sport (previously Sports Roundup) was a New Zealand sports radio radio network, network and the talk radio, talkback sister network of Newstalk ZB. It held commentary rights for most cricket matches, international and domestic rugby uni ...

for 6 years * Charity work including the 'Fight for Life' – Meningitis appeal * Involved in coaching for schools and clubs * Guest speaker * Batter/Bowler for the official New Zealand

Beach Cricket Backyard cricket, Bat ball, street cricket, beach cricket, corridor cricket, garden cricket, box cricket (if the ground is short) referred to as gully cricket in the Indian subcontinent, is an informal ''ad hoc'' variant of the game of cricket, ...

team in

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

and 2009

Personal life

Morrison currently lives on the Sunshine Coast, Australia, moving there in 2006 with his wife, Kim Morrison and children, Jacob and Tayla.

Autobiography

Morrison released an autobiography after his retirement named ''Mad As I Wanna Be'' that was published in 1997. This received generally positive reviews although outspoken New Zealand Cricket commentator Richard Whiting described the overall tone of the book as 'mental'. He has also written a book called the ''Danny Morrison Junior Cricket Diary'' as an aid for aspiring young cricketers.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Morrison, Danny 1966 births Living people Auckland cricketers Lancashire cricketers New Zealand One Day International cricketers One Day International hat-trick takers New Zealand Test cricketers New Zealand cricketers New Zealand cricket commentators New Zealand emigrants to Australia People from the Sunshine Coast, Queensland Scarborough Festival President's XI cricketers