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Originally Posted by BeeGee
To be fair, neither of them said NZ had the edge.
If I was picking a combined NZ/Eng team for NZ conditions it would look like this:
AN Cook*
NRD Compton
IJL Trott
KP Pietersen
LRPL Taylor
IR Bell
MJ Prior†
GP Swann
SCJ Broad
JM Anderson
ST Finn
So only the one Kiwi in Taylor.
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Haha yeah indeed. The second opening spot and the two non-Anderson seamers the only real debatable picks I guess. The latter probably depends on whether you think Broad has declined or was just struggling with injury/poor form in India. I do think Southee is better than Finn but with him being so similar to Anderson and Broad, picking Finn as the third seamer makes sense. I'm a Compton fan so I'd pick him ahead of Root and McCullum but I'm sure you'll get some opposition to that as well.