One-day skills will sort team's top and tail

The top and tail of the New Zealand test team will be the focal points for the national selectors when they get out the whiteboard in Hamilton today, writes David Leggat in the New Zealand Herald.

The lack of first-class cricket in the past few weeks means they may be forced to pick some players on trust, and past performances. They are relying on evidence from one-day matches - domestic and international. The season schedule has done them no favours.