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Bill Frindall

Ask Bearders #164

Welcome to Ask Bearders, where Test Match Special statistician Bill "The Bearded Wonder" Frindall answers your questions on all things cricket.

Below are Bill's responses to some of your questions posed at the end of his last column and if you have a question for Bill, leave it at the end of this blog entry. Please do include your country of residence - Bill loves to hear where all his correspondents are posting from.

Bill isn’t able to answer all of your questions, however. BBC Sport staff will choose a selection of them and send them to Bearders for him to answer.


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Graeme Swann

Kiwis will be tough opponents

We’ve been in New Zealand for just over a week and having now adjusted to the time difference, and following the intense training sessions and tactical team meetings, we can’t wait to get started.

We kick off with two Twenty20s this week ahead of the five-match one-day series and, coming here on the back of an historic one-day series win in Sri Lanka last November – which no-one outside of the squad expected I’m sure - we’re determined to keep this England side on the upward curve.

We want to be the best side in the world in one-day and Test cricket and the only way to do that is to go and beat teams in their own backyard – that continues here.

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