He was only banned/suspended from one match, as long as he is capable of proving he has taking remedial steps to improve his action he'll be allowed to play in the series and if I recall right, it was only his Doosra that was illegal. Chances are he'll be playing by the time we're there.
The way he got out was weird, for a guy on 200 he seemed to pick it up really late
He has to prove that his action is clean. Even if he goes through the remedial work and does the testing in time, he won't have any match practise on his side and anyway, I don't think the Windies would select him since his effectiveness seems to quite clearly coincide with the deterioration in his action.
But even with Sodhi in the team, we won't be relying on him. New Zealand will still be very much relying on the Southee-Boult-Wagner combination to take at least 15 of the 20 wickets needed. Anderson, Sodhi and Williamson might each chip in with 1 or 2 here and there, but just as was the case in SRL in 2012, we'll be looking to win games with our seamers. It won't be easy, but Boult and Southee have shown in the past that they have the capacity to do it, and in Wagner they have more able support than Dougeh offered a couple of years ago.
This is the encouraging thing about Sodhi, but then when you look at his action and his run-up in particular, it just doesn't look like the type of action that will ever become consistently capable of not bowling full tosses and long hops. Who knows though, people probably would have said the same about Kumble and he certainly became very accurate.
Of all the weaknesses in terms of picking NZ players, short pitched bowling shouldn't be made too much of a big deal. There are other weaknesses that less emphasis is placed on for some reason. Rutherford's "drive/cut anything through the covers", Fulton's "My off stump is a slut", Guptill's "I can't pick length so I just try to play straight to everything", Anderson's lack of off side game etc are more of an issue, IMO.
I think the point more so is that you should select eleven players who all have a chance of influencing the outcome of the match in the positive. At the moment, Sodhi is not equipped enough as a batsman nor a fielder to offer that sort of utility value to the team that Vettori was able to do on the back of his diminishing returns as a bowler and his bowling is highly unlikely to give NZ a chance to win, it's more likely to let the opposition score some quick pressure free runs.
well yeah, obviously it's something to work on.
it was a nice googly. He should consider making it his stock delivery to left handers.
Ironically, his action is perfect for a googly - getting the ball to break towards leg for a right hand is all about pushing the ball on a downward trajectory if you're a right armer, probably why he gets a bit more turn and bounce from his googly because he's not fighting his wrist, he's using it to help his high arm action.
