BLACKCAPS Team for Final Three ODI Matches v Australia

The following players have been selected to contest the final three ODI matches against Australia.

1) Daniel Vettori
2) Shane Bond
3) Neil Broom
4) James Franklin
5) Martin Guptill
6) Gareth Hopkins
7) Peter Ingram
8) Brendon McCullum
9) Nathan McCullum
10) Michael Mason
11) Tim Southee
12) Scott Styris
13) Shannan Stewart
14) Ross Taylor
15) Daryl Tuffey

Shannan Stewart comes into the team as injury cover for James Franklin and Ross Taylor. Michael Mason will also remain with the squad.

Selectors spokesman, Mark Greatbatch said that Stewart gets his chance on the back of some very solid domestic form. “Shannan is in the thirty man squad for our Twenty20 World Cup squad. He is in great nick, an experienced middle order player, a very dynamic one-day player. We feel he plays the aggressive game that we are looking to play against the Australians.”