McCullum best suited to batting in the top order

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has already positively gushed about his team's top order heading into the ODIs against India. On the same topic, former New Zealand batsman Mark Richardson, in the New Zealand Herald, has said Brendon McCullum should be persevered with at the top. Richardson believes that if McCullum can take the same mentality he took in his two unbeaten half-centuries in the Twentyy20s then those scores would convert to possible 150s. And scores like that achieve wins.

With the hitting power that permeates through this team, McCullum's true value to his side is in the time he can spend at the crease. This is something I feel he may have forgotten and he sold himself short in trying to demonstration his potential destructive abilities.