Watling as New Zealand's Test keeper is a gamble

So BJ Watling has the inside running to be New Zealand's next Test wicketkeeper, but of the two contenders in the squad logic and pure numbers suggest Kruger van Wyk should be the frontrunner, says Fred Woodcock, writing for Fairfax NZ News.

The logic part is simple - of the two South African-born players, only van Wyk can claim to be a specialist gloveman. The 31-year-old has been doing the job for more than a decade at first-class level both in South Africa and New Zealand, while Watling, six years his junior, is a part-time keeper who is rated behind Peter McGlashan for his first-class team, Northern Districts, and only been mooted as a keeping option at international level during the past few weeks. You can get away with non-specialists at Twenty20, and possibly even one-day, level, but surely test cricket is the domain of specialists.