Black Caps trio named in test team of year At a glance

New Zealand Cricket’s breakout star of 2020 has joined Kane Williamson and TimSouthee in a World Test XI, chosen by a leading cricket publication.

After a stunning introduction to test cricket against India and West Indies at home, Kyle Jamieson was named alongside his captain and senior swing bowler in the Wisden website’s test team of the year.

With Covid-19 having wiped out a lot of international cricket in 2020 it’s a small sample size, but there is no room for the world’s top-two ranked batsmen Steve Smith and Virat Kohli, or Australia’s Pat Cummins, the leading test bowler.

The selection takes in perform

Wisden’s test XI of 2020: Dom Sibley (England), Shan Masood (Pakistan), KaneWilliamson (New Zealand), Babar Azam (Pakistan), Marnus Labuschagne (Australia), Ben Stokes (England), Quinton de Kock (South Africa), Kyle Jamieson (New Zealand), Stuart Broad (England), Tim Southee (New Zealand), Nathan Lyon (Australia). *Selection period from December 11, 2019, to December 11, 2020.

ances from December 11 last year to the just-completed second test againstWest Indies which the Black Caps won by an innings and 12 runs.

Jamieson burst on the scene against India in February, and after his first four tests has phenomenal numbers: 20 wickets at an average of 14.55, and 164 runs at 54.66

batting at No 8.

Williamson scored 405 runs at an average of 50.62 during the selection window. He struggled in the 3-0 test series defeat in Australia, but scored a crucial 89 against India in a bowlerdominated first test then, this month, produced one of his best test innings when plundering 251 againstWest Indies in Hamilton.

Southee was top wicket-taker in the twoWest Indies tests, snaring 12 at an average of 18.75. In six tests in Australia, then at home against India and West Indies, the senior man snared 38 wickets at 18.89 and now sits on 296 for his career.

In the Wisden selection, Pakistan’s Babar Azam and Australia’s Marnus Labuschagne were named at four and five, while England’s Ben Stokes got the allrounder’s spot and South Africa’s Quinton de Kock was named wicketkeeper. The pace lineup is Southee, England’s Stuart Broad and Jamieson, with Australia’s Nathan Lyon the spinner.