Who's next in line?

Hamish Marshall has become the first New Zealand player to turn his back on a national contract. The Northern Districts batsman has made "the most difficult decision of my life" and, armed with a British passport, will play his cricket in England for the foreseeable future.

Writing in the New Zealand Herald, Dylan Cleaver looks at the three players who appear to have the inside running to take the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) contract vacated by Marshall.

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