Allan Bunting might have been a Black Cap.
Cricket was his first love and the all rounder was good enough to play in Northern Districts teams and the New Zealand Development side with Black Cap’s great Daniel Vettori.
“I opened the bowling with Dan,” Bunting remembers of the famous spin bowler. “He was a left arm medium pace bowler.”
Bunting got the ball through at a reasonable clip and batted up and down the order.
In those days it was cricket all summer, football through winter, with basketball and rugby filling in any spare hours of the week.
There was a time when he would play rugby on Saturday morning and senior club football in Rotorua in the afternoon.
“Allan was
