The Hutt Rec
International Vice-Captain
It's just exactly what we did to Ajaz when we came back to NZ for the Bangladesh series last season. The current selectors will never select a spinner in NZ unless they are seen as an all rounder (I say seen as, because Sodhi averages more than Macewell with the bat in tests) ...Bit of a random muse, but I think our treatment of Sodhi was harsh. He's just had his best ever test series and is a pretty respectable T20 bowler most of the time. I think we missed a trick not playing him against guys who will come after him. They went after Abrar who we largely neutered and Abrar did get poles and had a solid series for a debutant.
England could have smashed him because they have a lot of quality players (I liked Pope before it was cool) and Joe Root is an ATG and even better than Babar, but it makes more sense as a selection than most we've made this series.
Another pretty poor decision to add to the list imo.