Wagner was like a labrador - keen for a pat on the head and loyal to a fault

As the lionhearted left-arm calls it quits, The Bounce has an excerpt from Modern New Zealand Cricket Greats

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If you weren’t moved by watching Neil Wagner’s press call to announce his retirement from international cricket, then you’re made of different stuff from me. It was so Wagnerian. It was painful and yet somehow glorious. The words didn’t come out seamlessly, nor particularly elegantly, but there was the heart pounding away on his sleeve for a…