Despite a spirited fightback in the previous two tests, England have lost the one day series in New Zealand but what needs to be done to change their fortunes?
While other countries are effective in the early order batting, for example South Africa with Graeme Smith and the effect Adam Gilchrist had with Australia, England seem to struggle and this is echoed by Jonathan Agnew's blog, " I hope England learn some important lessons from this experience. The first is that, in order to score quickly at the start of the innings, you do not slog.
"Adam Gilchrist does not slog, and neither does Graeme Smith, but Philip Mustard aimed a dreadful cross-batted swipe in the second over and gifted New Zealand a confidence-boosting early wicket."
Also if we are to improve Agnew also argues a change in the batting order needs to occur. He stated: " This brought Ian Bell and Alastair Cook together, and regular readers of this blog will know that I have a problem with these two in the top three. Both are fine batsmen, don’t get me wrong, but they are one-dimensional and incapable of innovation in one-day cricket – it just isn’t the way they bat. There is room for one of them in the same one-day team, but not both, and I think Kevin Pietersen should be batting at number three."(http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/tms/2008/02/england_pay_for_batting_uncert.shtml)
So if England are to improve changes have to be made because the cricket which they are producing is just not suited to the one day game and leaving the inexperienced bowling attack with little to defend.
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