The Surfer

New Zealand running out of options

On Monday New Zealand will name their squad to tour England and in the Waikato Times , Ian Anderson looks at how few options the selectors have.

On Monday New Zealand will name their squad to tour England and in the Waikato Times, Ian Anderson looks at how few options the selectors have.

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This season's programme has shown us we don't have 15 players who can automatically make claims for Test squad selection. We have ten then it's a scramble for the remaining spots. Batting is the major achilles heel – there's still no definitive opening combination and the top six has more obvious holes than a hastily-invented alibi.

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Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here