Only three men have taken all 10 wickets in a Test innings. 🏏 That wasn't enough for Ajaz Patel to retain his spot in New Zealand's squad. 😲 9WWOS
"I think if you look at the reality of spin bowlers in New Zealand in the last four or five years, there hasn't been a lot of them taking truckloads of wickets," Stead said at Hagley Oval in Christchurch on Thursday.
Stead and NZ Cricket selection manager Gavin Larsen included five quick bowlers – Tim Southee, Trent Boult, Kyle Jamieson, Neil Wagner and Matt Henry – in the squad, with four of them expected to start in the first Test at Mount Maunganui's Bay Oval on New Year's Day."Which one of the four quicks are you going to drop that he'll be better than?
Stead said Patel was "disappointed but realistic" over his omission, while explaining that a spin bowler's role at home would be vastly different from one in Asia.
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