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David Williams writes in: “Hope to be proven wrong but there looks a notable disparity in quality between the two sets of bowlers with NZ high on pace and experience.”
True: Southee, Ferguson and Milne is a particularly fine pace trio, and I do love watching Ish Sodhi give it a twirl. But I reckon England are just happy to use this series to experiment with their quicks, giving their main guys a rest ahead of the ODIs.
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