The silent assasin's warning
Sir Richard Hadlee, New Zealand's greatest player, tells the Observer's 's Will Buckley that Test cricket should never be compromised by the shorter versions
'The players we have are more suited to one-day cricket. We have made five World Cup semi-finals and the Twenty20 semi-finals. Tactically we are pretty good in the one-day game. We believe we can go and win. But in Test cricket we are inconsistent. You have to bat time, not overs, in Test cricket, whereas in the one-day game you bat overs, not time. We might score well in the first innings, but then be bowled out for a paltry score in the second innings. We may surprise, but England are hot favourites.
John Bracewell has repeatedly called the current tour the second part of a six-match series and right now I can't see anything other than 5-1.
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Siddhartha Vaidyanathan is a former assistant editor at Cricinfo