Hadlee's moment

In the Hindu, K Gopinathan recalls snapping a photo of Richard Hadlee taking his record-breaking 374th Test wicket at Bangalore in 1988.

“Thank you for capturing the special moment,” Hadlee wrote on the photograph. Then Kuggeleijn rushed into the room saying he too wanted a signed photograph.

Twenty-five years later, I met Sir Richard at Friday's press conference. The great man remembered. “Yes,” he said, “You got it from a top angle, it has become history.”