With Neil Wagner back, Kiwis may hit India with all-pace attack

Under five days in the wake of turning into a dad, New Zealand bowling's motor room Neil Wagner was absorbing parenthood on Wednesday. He talked about the requests of paternity: "I had my telephone reliably on Sky Go in the emergency clinic, viewing the young men and supporting from far off, and a few early mornings (watching on record) while doing the odd nappy change." Then with a regular mean streak, he focused on: "Presently back to business and getting back with the young men." Just that his arrival has placed the group the board in a quandary, as his substitution Kyle Jamieson delighted in a stupendous all-round presentation. So did his old buddies Trent Boult and Tim Southee and all-rounder Colin de Grandhomme, therefore making his arrival muddled. Wagner, clearly, has been one of the Kiwi bowling columns over the most recent two years and would opening himself into the eleven. "Neil Wagner will return and he's been a power in our group for quite a while. He'll be back with us definitely." said mentor Gary Stead. The New Zealand mentor has a viable arrangement: To play each of the four seamers, to the detriment of left-arm spinner Ajaz Patel, who bowled a consolidated six overs in the whole Wellington Test. "I think we generally think about those things. We'll go down there, take a gander at the wicket, we're as yet three or four days out at this stage, so would prefer not to make any presumptions before we get down there, however by and large the wicket we play on at Hagley has a small piece in it too. We've found in the past folks like Colin de Grandhomme can be valuable in those conditions — recall his introduction against Pakistan, at that point it was helpful conditions for him," Stead called attention to. It would have been extraordinary if Mitchell Santner was near, yet thinking about that Ajaz is neither helpful with the bat nor frugal with the ball, the pace-group of four system appears to be coherent. The choice, Stead continued emphasizing, would rely upon the idea of the strip.