Oram the enigma in 13-piece puzzle
Jacob Oram's forced return home from the tour of Bangladesh due to injury may well lead to him foregoing his role as an allrounder and play as a batsman alone, at least for the tour of Australia coming up, writes Dylan Cleaver in the New Zealand
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Jacob Oram's forced return home from the tour of Bangladesh due to injury may well lead to him foregoing his role as an allrounder and play as a batsman alone, at least for the tour of Australia coming up, writes Dylan Cleaver in the New Zealand Herald.
The team to tour Australia will be picked this week and Oram's status and the return of Chris Martin are the only sticking points in what should otherwise be a straightforward exercise. With no cricket, aside from typically soggy spring club forays, being played, there is nowhere for the selectors to turn except for the players who, barring one or two notable exceptions, underperformed so badly in Bangladesh.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo