new zealand call 5 seamers in ICC Champions Trophy squad
Seamers Ben Sears, Nathan Smith and will O'Rourke will play their first worldwide tournament at the Champions Trophy in pakistan and the United Arab Emirates next month after being named in the new zealand squad on Sunday.
Matt Henry will lead the brand new zealand assault after the global retirements of stalwarts Trent Boult and tim southee with Lockie Ferguson making up a five-robust tempo battery.
Sears returns from a knee harm that saved him out of movement for lots of final yr, at the same time as O'Rourke and Smith impressed inside the recent test collection towards england and the fast format series against sri lanka that accompanied.
Left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner will lead the 15-man squad after his appointment as his country's white-ball captain final month.
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Santner, Kane Williamson and tom Blundell are the simplest survivors of the new zealand squad for the remaining edition of the Champions Trophy in 2017.
"we're currently blessed with plenty of satisfactory gamers and that simply made for a few tough selection discussions," stated instruct Gary Stead.
"we've long past with the squad as a way to offer us the quality options to carry out well within the predicted situations in pakistan and the UAE."
The Black Caps will play warm-up suits in opposition to pakistan, south africa and afghanistan in Karachi and Lahore earlier than the tournament gets underway on february 19.
new zealand Squad: Mitchell Santner (captain), Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, tom Latham, Daryl Mitchell, Will O'Rourke, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Ben Sears, Nathan Smith, Kane Williamson, Will young.
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