Shane Bond returns for 3rd Test

Shane Bond has been passed fit and returns to the New Zealand squad named for the third Test in Napier starting this Saturday.

Bond was ruled out on the morning of the first day of the 2nd Test in Wellington with a stomach virus.

The squad otherwise remains the same, with Jeetan Patel and Kyle Mills likely to be the players missing out on the playing eleven.

New Zealand
Nathan Astle, Shane Bond, Stephen Fleming (captain), Peter Fulton, James Franklin, Jamie How, Brendon McCullum, Hamish Marshall, Chris Martin, Kyle Mills, Jeetan Patel, Scott Styris, Daniel Vettori.