CRICKET - Hurricane Southee winds up

Heaven help the Wellington batsmen if Tim Southee is left out of the Twenty20 squad to play the West Indies.
The 20-year-old Northern Districts bowler is expecting to rejoin the Black Caps side when it is named today, after being a surprise omission from the test squad.
"I'm hoping to get selected but if I don't then I'm quite looking forward to making the most of the rest of the season with ND," he said yesterday.
Making a serious mess of the Wellington batting line-up on Sunday, in their State Shield one-day match at Cobham Oval, will no doubt be a high priority either way but if he is out to prove a point - then it could be watch out, Wellington.
Southee remembers with fondness the last time the Firebirds came calling at Cobham Oval.
"We had that one game against Wellington last year where we put 300 runs on them and then rolled them in the chase quite easily, so I'm looking forward to playing at home again this weekend. It's not every day we get to play up here."
Southee was left out of the test side during the Black Caps' tour to England earlier this year after an illness, and then returned for the one-day series with great effect, later being named as the player of the series.
New ND coach Grant Bradburn is expecting the Maungakaramea bowler's spell with the Knights to be a brief one, and believes the New Zealand selectors will have little choice but to name him in the Twenty20 squad for two matches against the West Indies, on Boxing Day and December 28.
"My personal point of view is that I'd be surprised if he wasn't included in the Black Caps' one-day and Twenty20 squad, so we'll be hoping that he's not with us for too long, let's put it that way," Bradburn said.
Southee enjoyed his first game back with the Knights since last summer, against Canterbury this week, but admitted his bowling wasn't right on the money.
"The first innings was reasonably good, but I only bowled about nine overs in the second innings and felt that I bowled quite poorly, but in the first innings I was happy with the way things went," he said.
He took two for 36 off 19 overs as ND took first-innings points in the drawn match but a roller-coaster second innings saw both sides narrowly miss six points for a win. Thanks to a maiden first-class century to Todd Astle, Canterbury started well, chasing 318 for a win, but when bad light stopped play they were 294 for eight.
"They were cruising for a while [in their chase] and then made a couple of dumb mistakes, then we got a few run outs and we were back on even terms and in the end it was unfortunate that we had to go off for bad light," Southee said.
ND sit above only Canterbury in the State Championship, whereas the Firebirds are second top but the Knights are hoping to take advantage of the inexperience in the Wellington side to get a good start to their one-day campaign.