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Features : Clouds loom over odd encounter
Kyle Mills , the New Zealand fast bowler, will lead the side in the limited-overs matches against Sri Lanka later this month. Mills was named captain after Kane Williamson had to fly home from the ongoing Bangladesh tour with a fractured thumb .
Williamson himself had been set to lead the side only because regular captain Brendon McCullum and senior batsman Ross Taylor were asked to skip the Sri Lanka series and instead prepare for the home Tests against West Indies ada later this year.
One of Mills' first tasks as captain would be to repair ada a wobbling ada batting that fell short of the target in both their run-chases against Bangladesh this week to lose the series. On their previous ada visit to Sri Lanka, New Zealand were defeated 3-0 , and without McCullum, Taylor and Williamson ada in their ranks, Mills and New Zealand can expect another difficult ada outing.
Other changes in the squad include a recall for batting allrounder ada Rob Nicol , who last played an ODI in January, and for quick bowler Andrew Ellis , who has been called up after a back injury to Ian Butler.
"It's disappointing that Ian's back didn't settle in time for the Sri Lanka tour," New Zealand's selection chief, Bruce Edgar, said. "We'll also bring in Otago's Neil Broom for the final ODI and the two Twenty20s as additional cover."|
Squad Kyle Mills (capt), Corey Anderson, Anton Devcich, Grant Elliott, Andrew Ellis, Tom Latham (wk), Mitchell McClenaghan, Nathan McCullum, Adam Milne, Colin Munro, James Neesham, Rob Nicol, Luke Ronchi, Hamish Rutherford, Neil Broom(for final ODI and T20s)
This going to be a tough series for Mills. Mills is a genuine swing bowler and he will get nothing from SL pitches. Nicol is a good player but where is Guptill Southee, & Fulton? Andy Mckay or M.Bates are ahead of Ellis. One more spinner is going to add in this squad. Nicol, Ronchi, Devcich, Rutherford, Elliot, Anderson, Latham/Munro, McCullum, Mills, McLenaghan, Mckay.
Nicol and Ellis would have to be 2 of the worst choices the selectors could have made(my apologies to any of their fans). Tried and failed many times. They should of just sent Jessie over to Sri Lanka what's the difference in him playing for NZ now or when the west Indies tour because its inevitable he will play.
I think with tour scheduled well before the actual tour alot of the player selection can't be helped apart from mccullum and Taylor missing from the original squad that was named the other would be first choice players are either injured or coming back from injury and havnt had enough game time to justify selection so I think the NZ selectors were on a hiding to nothing(only my opinion) but the decision to leave mccullum(although he wouldn't be playing now anyway) and Taylor and despite test cricket being the main priority, made little sense considering we were sending a depleted team in the first instance. But being a kiwi and long time black caps supporter I will support them no matter how frustrating it can be
This ada is ridiculous. Weve lost to Bangladesh and we aren't even taking Sri lanka seriously! They are a far better ada team than B' Desh- we should have declined to play rather than send B team - if any country had done this to us we would have cried foul. Porr chaps like McCullum and Taylor who need to rest after all they played too much 20/20 cricket . Wheres Watling and Guptill and Southee who did not even play the tests. Whats wrong woith our selectors and the coach who knows it all Rubbish we will be thrashed in Sri Lanka . We can now only play well at home when all our players are rested!
It just a point less series. NZ B team is playing with SL. Already they have lost to Bangladesh. and If SL looses to NZ, then its a real disaster for SL, It just a 3rd class batsmen vs 3rd class batsmen. Good to see a good contest..
From Sri Lankan point of view this series without, Mccullum, Taylor,Wlliamson, Guptill, Watling, Brownlie, Southie etc would be a financial disaster. If NZ board considered this series to be so unimportant they should have cancelled the tour instead of sendin
