The McCullum advantage
Post Champions Trophy, Mark Richardson counters suggestions that Brendon McCullum be moved up the order to counter New Zealand's top-order woes, citing the team's strengths
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
Post Champions Trophy, Mark Richardson counters suggestions that Brendon McCullum be moved up the order to counter New Zealand's top-order woes, citing the team's strengths.
Read the full piece in Herald on Sunday.
The one area the Black Caps could say they are strong, and arguably the best in the world, would be their lower middle order. It is because of this depth the Black Caps rate themselves as a very good chasing side and it should be because of this depth that the top order has the confidence to play freely. If McCullum is taken out of the lower middle, he will leave a gap
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo