It seems it is definitely the end of the T20 campaign for veteran wicketkeeper Kruger van Wyk as a changing of the guards of sorts kicks in.
Having just returned from the Adelaide test match last week, CD bowling coach Jacob Oram missed the last T20 game but was aware this summer's captain had stepped down "for the betterment of the team".
"It's a big call but I think we're fortunate to have someone like Dane Cleaver as the back up to Kruger who, in his own right, is a very good wicketkeeper and he's shown, last summer in the Ford Trophy and so far this season in a couple of short cameos, that he can play some very unbelievable shots to find a boundary when no one else can," Oram said in Napier before tonight's match against Wellington Firebirds.
However, Oram said Van Wyk saw the benefit in handing the gloves to Cleaver to enable the collective to inject a fifth seamer while opening batsman George Worker assumed the mantle of captaincy.
Seamer Bevan Small also offered a handy batting option at No 6-No7 with the ability to loft the ball over the rope.
