I actually agreed with the decision. As much as it was swinging a bit, the thought of a tiring pace attack trying to run through Cook, Bell, Trott etc could have been messy (e.g. 2nd Innings in Dunedin). Would much rather see them have a rest and come back firing. Plus McCullum was in a far better position to make a call on how much they had left in the tank.
Looking forward to today though.
P.S. Is anyone changing their tune on McCullum/Hesson? I'm starting to nibble on some humble pie.
I think we are progressing on a similar track to where we were. We were starting to show shades of fighting with the bat and our bowling has been good and improving steadily over the past 18 months or so. I never had a problem with McCullum as captain as such, I think Taylor is/will be better, but I think both are a significant improvement on Vetorri. Hesson however, showed he isn't up to this level through the whole debacle.