Alright, we were wrong about the unwatchables

New Zealand cricket isn't often the height of fashion, but lately it's been sniffed at even more than usual, especially given John Bracewell's disconcerting habit of rotating his starting line-up. But now, suddenly, the Kiwis are on the up - a place in the CB Series is all but sealed, and even Australia were threatened by Jacob Oram's fireworks at Perth. Richard Boock in New Zealand Herald feels an apology is in order.

In common with other newspapers, we may have been guilty of suggesting that John Bracewell was not quite the next Albert Einstein, and that his selection policies appeared to have been designed by a bunch of Alzheimer's victims