The Fans XI

Cricinfo is running a poll to detemine who readers think should be in the two World XI teams which will face Australia in October. You should go and vote in it to make sure the New Zealand team is properly represented. Interestingly Cricinfo has inserted Shane Bond and Jacob Oram into the line-ups as players "who should have made the short-list" and you can select them in your teams alongside Dan Vettori and Brendon McCullum - who actually did make the short-list.

In drawing up your team you can ask Cricinfo to tell you how well each player has performed in the past twelve months. Dan Vettori's figures make particularly interesting reading when you do that. 9 test matches, 498 runs scored at an average of 49.80 and 49 wickets at an average of 22.71.