The player whose face just doesn't seem to fit

Mathew Sinclair went fishing the day he received the news most of us expected but somehow hoped wouldn't happen. He didn't catch anything. Sinclair is just not having a time of his life, missing out on another contract, writes Dylan Cleaver in The New Zealand Herald

Here's two statistics to consider when assessing Sinclair's test record. Up to 2001, when Sinclair started to be dropped and picked for the test team, he averaged 43.16. Since 2002, when he began to get mucked around, he has averaged just 23.06.

He scored far too slowly (SR 60.76) to ever be truly effective in his 45 one-day internationals and that provided the selectors with enough ammunition to drop him.