Obviously New Zealand has been playing better cricket than us but we back ourselves, if we perform well, to be very competitive against them.

It's time to play cricket. That's what we're here for. We have had our challenges in the past and this is another challenge. I'm excited about the possibilities.

The most famous cricketers are too big to play county cricket.

While there's not a written mandate from us, I would certainly believe the main aim for the various state cricket associations should and would be to have players represent Australia,

I have played with Brian as captain before so this is nothing new. He's a good leader and has the respect of all his peers.

I thought that we should have restricted them for less, we allowed the run rate to get away in the middle period when I believe we were trying too hard to make things happen and our consistency suffered because of that.