One of Cricket's greatest players is the star guest at this evening's Castletown dinner at the Villa Marina Royal Hall.
Sir Richard Hadlee played 86 test matches for New Zealand taking 431 wickets and scoring over three thousand runs.
He also played English County Cricket for Nottinghamshire between 1978 and 1987.
Hadlee is the tenth best cricketer of all time according to the sport's world famous almanack Wisden.
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