NZC chief executive David White says a proposal to reduce the second series to two Tests is being discussed, making way for three ODIs leading into the World Twenty20 tournament in India.
White said adding a three-match Chappell-Hadlee ODI series would generate enormous interest in the wake of the World Cup final between the trans-Tasman rivals.
New Zealand pace bowler Mitchell McClenaghan, a limited overs specialist at international level, was torn over his support for the change.
“Obviously from a one-day point of view, I’d love to be able to play a series against Aussie but I do think the Test guys deserve longer series against the big teams in the world, to really prove themselves,” he said.
This is Mitch, who has literally nothing to gain and everything to lose from an extra Test - and he's even advocating it. Because he's a smarter man than David White is and sees the benefit for us as a major nation and that it'll be achieved through the Test arena, not some whimsical attempt to carry on the momentum from the World Cup (which any of us would argue can be achieved through the Test arena anyway). The punters who want to go to ODI cricket to drink and be merry can still do so, that won't change due to some made-up flow on effect from the World Cup.
This is the same berk (White) who purports to want to deliver a Test side that is considered for Boxing Day Tests at the 'G, longer series' against major nations...but when practicality comes to it he'd rather shoe-horn in money-spinning ODIs under the premise of continued interest and some sort of match practice for a meaningless world tournament? **** off. He might actually be every inch of the liar and piss-poor GM that Vaughan was, but is lucky to be able to hide behind a successful pair of leaders of the national side.