Brendon McCullum: specialist batsman

The Otago Daily Times has an extract from the new autobiography Brendon McCullum: Inside Twenty20 in which the New Zealand wicketkeeper reveals his thinking behind making a move towards becoming a specialist batsman.

My hands are starting to become butchered, but that is par for the course in the keeping trade. I've broken pretty much everything in there and I've got a dicky back that is starting to give me a bit of grief, but that's not the major reason I want to hand over the gloves in Twenty20. For me it's about driving the game from the field and communicating constantly with the bowlers.