World News – AU – Black Caps Veteran Batsmen feel the heat as others take their chances

Predicting which black cap will star on Tuesday night is like a happy eight-year-old trying to decide which gift to open first on Christmas morning.

After Tim Seifert scored the top goal for New Zealand against Pakistan on Sunday evening in Hamilton, the list of players who had a significant influence on the hosts in recent months just got longer.

Lockie Ferguson, Glenn Phillips and Devon Conway all shone in the Twenty20 series against the West Indies, before established stars Tim Southee, Kane Williamson, Tom Latham, Neil Wagner and Henry Nicholls made strong appearances in the test run against the same opposition.

There was also Kyle Jamieson, who started testing cricket like no other all-rounder.

In the first two games of the T20 series against the next visitors, we saw debutant Jacob Duffy enter the Pakistani top rankings. Mark Chapman led the team to another win and Seifert recorded points of 57 and 84 on his last two innings.

Among all the cast prior to the final T20 series game against Pakistan in Napier on Tuesday night, two names are notable omissions – Ross Taylor and Martin Guptill.

Between them, the pair have played a staggering 760 games for New Zealand in the three formats and have formed a sizable part of the Black Cap’s back for more than a decade.

Taylor was dropped from the Pakistan Series 18-man T20 squad after scoring 0 and 0 in the shortest form series against the Windies, while serving 38 in his two Test innings at Hamilton and Wellington and scored 9.

“The T20 selection was a very, very difficult selection, probably one of the most difficult we had to make. He’s been a consistent performer, but we just couldn’t find a place on the roster, which is what we’ve seen with Devon [Conway] and Glenn Phillips. ”

Guptill made a quick 34 of 23 balls on Sunday and looked good. Seifert praised his inaugural partner for his role in successfully chasing victory.

In his last 18 T20 games since the beginning of 2019, however, the 34-year-old has only completed 331 runs with an average of 20. 68 – albeit with an excellent hit rate of 149. 09.

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