No worries facing the English

By PETER THORLEY BLACK Caps strike bowler Tim Southee is treating tonight's Twenty20 match against England at Eden Park as just another cricket game.
He admits the game's evening start time will give him the whole day to develop some pre-game nerves, but he isn't expecting that to affect his performance.
"I'll just be carrying on doing what got me selected in the team in the first place and hopefully that will work on the day," he said.
Southee's rise up the country's cricketing ranks started about this time last year when he was called into the Northern Districts side for a couple of Twenty20 matches before being included in the squad for the four-day State Championship final in Hamilton.
He was contracted to ND this season and his form with the ball saw him included in the New Zealand team for the Twenty20 match against Bangladesh. Tonight he steps up to his first full international cap against England.
"It's all happened pretty quickly, but I'm looking forward to the challenge and hopefully I'll do all right against England," he said.
"Obviously Twenty20 is a batsman's game, but bowlers have good days every now and then and if things don't go too well, I've got the opportunity to go back and have a look at what went wrong and learn from that, for the next game on Thursday."
The Waiotira 19-year-old will go from being the most inexperienced player on the field tonight and during Thursday's second Twenty20 encounter, to being one of the most experienced players at the ICC Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia.
Southee will fly out with the New Zealand team to Malaysia on Saturday morning for the three-week-long competition _ the second youth World Cup he has attended after starring in New Zealand's last performance in Sri Lanka two years ago.
The question now being bandied around in the media, after Shane Bond's announcement he will not play in the upcoming England series, is will Southee also be required for the test series starting in early March.
The young bowler said if it is on the selectors' minds then no-one has thought to tell him.
"No-one has said anything about that to me. When I get back from the under-19 World Cup I'll be back trying to maintain my form for ND and then we'll just have to wait and see what happens.
"A test spot is a possibility I guess, but there's definitely other bowlers around who are performing at the moment and I think selection will go to the bowlers who are performing the best at the time, so hopefully I can continue to bowl well for ND (on my return from Malaysia)."
Right now he has enough on his plate and he plans to enjoy his experience tonight at Eden Park, safe in the knowledge he will have plenty of support on hand.
Joanne and Murray Southee will make the trip down to Auckland to support their son in his first game for the Black Caps and he is expecting a number of his Auckland-based mates to be in the stands as well.