Summary
NEW ZEALAND know they need to sort out the team's top order if they are to match their 1999 predecessors by winning a series in England.
In the three home Tests against England a couple of months ago they failed to post a half-century opening stand and vice-captain Brendon McCullum (right) admits: "If it wasn't for our inability to score runs at the top of the order in the last two Tests then I'm sure we'd have run them a lot closer. Our bowling is pretty sound, but the times where they have struggled is when we haven't given them enough rest with the bat." Their failure to do that resulted in the selectors dropping Matthew Bell and Mathew Sinclair from their tour party and calling up Otago opener Aaron Redmond.See the full content of this document
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