Tim Wigmore analyses why New Zealand have dropped out of the upper echelon of ODI sides so rapidly

PLANET CRICKET
Tim Wigmore

In the 2015 World Cup, New Zealand were intoxicating and unmissable. It was not merely the eight straight games they won, but the élan and joie de vivre of their cricket. The land of dour cricket and the dibbly-dobbler medium pacer was transformed into being at the cutting edge of the world game.
Well, not anymore. New Zealand’s meek exit from the Champions Trophy, for all the brilliance of the 224-run stand between Mahmudullah and Shakib Al Hasan, wa...