In the haze of depression a few years ago, Lou Vincent couldn’t imagine a night of redemption like this. A night when Sir Richard Hadlee, New Zealand’s greatest cricketer, handed over a commemorative cap for featuring in a century of ODIs, when the legend shed tears for a talent he once unearthed; and when finally, he could smile without a crushing weight in his heart. The former cricketer, whose life ban for match-fixing was lifted last December, stifled tears as he said: “Richard… for you to take time out and fly to Auckland to want to present this cap to me is so, so humbling and a reflection of the great man you are. Sir Richard Hadlee in tears! It was a really powerful night.” Vincent couldn’t hold his tears back for too long either. The 45-year-old is not the man he once used to be. His hairline is receding — the blond locks that danced when he lunged to pluck a catch from thin air exist only in the memory of the audience he …