Fleming still part of one-day plans

Left out of the Twenty20 squad, Stephen Fleming is currently playing for Nottinghamshire © Getty Images

New Zealand coach John Bracewell has said that Stephen Fleming is still a part of New Zealand's one-day plans despite being dropped from the 15-man squad for the Twenty20 World Championship in South Africa this September.

Fleming gave up the ODI captaincy after the 2007 World Cup and Bracewell said that he had been left out of the Twenty20 squad because his batting style wasn't suited to the shorter format, and to give Daniel Vettori, the new captain, space to "breathe" for himself.

"As far as I'm concerned he [Fleming] is still one of our best one-day batsmen given the way we play the game," Bracewell told stuff.co.nz. "We are keen to win, but I think it is going to be a bit of a power game in its initial crudeness and that is not Stephen's game. Also, mobility in the field is a factor. We also wanted to give the new captain a chance to breathe and have a go at leadership without having the old one standing over him."

Vettori, however, hasn't been named captain of the one-day side as yet but Bracewell said it was because New Zealand hadn't named their team. "We've been grooming him for a while and Dan [Vettori] has not done anything to dissuade us from thinking that he is a very good captain."