The importance of being Bond

While perhaps the average speed of the Black Caps attack has increased in the past few years, do not think for a moment that a potent New Zealand test match bowling attack can do without Bond, writes Mark Richardson in the New Zealand Herald.

In the same newspaper Paul Lewis speaks to Chris Martin on the challenges that lie ahead:

I think the first time I played them, it was a case of me realising that I could play at that level. The next time I played them, I had been out of the game pretty much for two years and I had a point to prove.