Time to make the selection panel smaller

After watching Martin Crowe's application to be a New Zealand selector get knocked back, Andrew McLean has written a piece for Cricinfo arguing that the selection panel only needs three members - and not the current four. McLean states that a team which consists of Bracewell (a spinner), Hadlee (a pace bowler) and Turner (a batsman) has a balanced feel to it and no extra input is needed. McLean is always an entertaining read and in this article he manages to extract, out of nothing, an excuse to make barbed comments about Chris Cairns which are well worth scrolling down the page for.