Pinball wizardry needed for selection

Mark Richardson, the former New Zealand batsman, writing in the New Zealand Herald, offers his views on the team selected for the tour of South Africa. He has sympathy for Lou Vincent and Sinclair and believes they have missed out because they're not specialist openers.

If you're Sinclair or Vincent where do you bat for your province? Do you open, hoping for the usual test incumbent failures or do you patiently position yourself? The simple answer is to bat where you score the most runs. But that just enhances the problem for both these two because for Sinclair that's three and Vincent it's four.