New Zealand’s Tom Latham walks again to the pavilion after shedding his wicket, bowled out by South Africa’s Kagiso Rabada on March 5, 2025. — Reuters
New Zealand stumper-batsman Tom Latham was dominated out of the one-day collection towards Pakistan with a hand damage on Thursday leaving Michael Bracewell to proceed because the facet’s captain.
With common white-ball captain Mitchell Santner busy within the Indian Premier League, Bracewell led New Zealand to a 4-1 victory in a T20 collection towards Pakistan.
Latham was resulting from lead New Zealand within the three-match ODI collection starting in Napier on Saturday, however he fractured his hand whereas batting within the nets and would require not less than 4 weeks to recuperate, the New Zealand Cricket (NZC) stated in a press release.
Opener Will Younger, in the meantime, will miss the final two ODIs to be together with his spouse as they await the beginning of their first little one.
“It’s obviously disappointing to lose Tom as captain on the eve of the series and we wish him a speedy recovery,” New Zealand head coach Gary Stead stated.
“The side is in safe hands with Michael, who’s done a great job through the T20I series.”
Henry Nicholls will return from a calf pressure to interchange Latham, whereas Mitch Hay will hold wickets. Canterbury batsman Rhys Mariu earned his maiden call-up as a batting cowl.
“We’ve had to be flexible this tour with numerous players unavailable for different reasons,” Stead stated.
“What it does do is offer opportunities to others players and it’s nice to introduce Rhys into the environment for the first time, as well as welcome back Henry.”
