McCullum for captaincy

Adam Parore, writing in the New Zealand Herald, favours Brendon McCullum as New Zealand's next Test captain instead of Ross Taylor, who appears to be the preferred choice.

I don't have the evidence to predict whether Taylor will or won't extract the best out of the players, or whether the captaincy affects his own game either way.

McCullum - who I understand really wants the captaincy - would be very positive and aggressive in his attitude and demeanour, and definitely worth the punt.

David Leggat, writing in the same newspaper, says New Zealand should experiment with McCullum batting down the order in ODIs to try out their options ahead of the World Cup.