Before this match Andre Adams was considered to be something of a one-day specialist, and his selection was a last roll of the dice by New Zealand. But he has a first-class bowling average of 23, and it was easy to see why after his six-wicket haul at Auckland. As our graph shows, Adams induced uncontrolled shots from the England batsmen - that's edges, or play-and-misses, or shots where the batsmen didn't look entirely at ease - every one in three balls. By contrast, the figure was 27% for Chris Drum and only 22% for Man of the Match Daryl Tuffey.

England were never comfortable against Adams, who took three wickets in each innings and nipped their fightback in the bud on the last day by dismissing James Foster and Nasser Hussain in consecutive overs. All six of his wickets were right-handers, no surprise given that their controlled-shots ratio against Adams in the match was as low as 60%.

One of those came courtesy of the ridiculous dismissal of Andrew Flintoff, an irony given that, with his initiative-changing lower-order hitting, and bustling, energetic medium pace, Adams has the capacity to do for New Zealand what Flintoff has done for England this winter.

Rob Smyth is on the staff of Wisden.com.

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