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Born to sport in South Auckland with a cricketing father and brother, a bat in one hand and a hockey-stick in the other, Doull was the archetypal taciturn, hard-nosed sportsman with a fighting heart the size of a barrel - and as a sharpish fast-medium bowler he hated batsmen. In his earlier days Doullhit a Northern Districts century and developed a very low golf handicap, but his main asset was an ability to make a cricket ball swing in and out, and react sharply from the seam. But Doull had two problems. The first were two lean and sinewy knees which suffered under the fast-bowling traffic. The second were a series of obdurate New Zealand selectors who did not regard Doull as limber enough for one-day bowling and fielding, and a physical risk in Tests. Doull was at the 1999 World Cup in England when the white ball swung and seamed all over the place. These were perfect Doull conditions, but he did not play a game. Then his Test career seemed to hit the rocks, with his tally just two wickets short of a well-deserved century. Don Cameron

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