McCullum finally had a good captains knock. The key is for him to follow it up or it just looks like a one off.
That's his second century for the summer. And over the summer he's currently averaging 79. Even before today's innings he was averaging 42.75. Not shabby on NZ pitches.
Again, I just don't get all the hate for him, when everyone is so keen to replace him with someone like Ryder who in his last two test series (2011) averaged 12.125. Even this summer in the ODIs he averaged 29.11. Don't get me wrong, Ryder's a good player, and would be great in our test team, I just don't get it.
The accusation against him has been that he hasn't stood up for the team when he needed to and that he's been a flat track bully. Think this innings answers that with interest. A determined knock.