Andrew Caddick has more reason than most to be filled with pride after England's 98-run win in Christchurch.

Not only did he bowl England to victory in the city of his birth with figures of six for 122, but he became in the process the 10th highest wicket-taker for his adopted country.

The decision he took to leave New Zealand as a 20-year-old, resentful of a lack of opportunity and aggrieved that he had been labelled injury-prone, may perhaps have flashed through his mind.

It did not matter that he had been chosen to represent New Zealand in the 1988 Youth World Cup, or that the country had made a last-gasp attempt to woo him back home as he was completing his qualification abroad.

He threw his lot into a life in England and has now completed his 11th five-wicket haul in Tests.

But if that makes Caddick's nine-year Test career sound as if it has been plain sailing, nothing could be further from the truth.

Prickly to the slightest criticism, and at times insensitive to the feelings of his team-mates (at least according to Darren Gough in his autobiography), Caddick has too often worn the look of a loner.

It has not helped that he appears at times to have let his side down by being unable to take early wickets and apply pressure on opponents from the outset.

Finally, however, Caddick appears to have found his niche.

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It is in the second innings of Tests that he comes into his own, having now taken 104 in the first innings at an average of 37 and 86 in the second at just over 20.

More importantly, his record in taking five-wicket hauls in matches that England have won is exceptional.

Of the 11 he has to his name, eight have led to England wins and all but two of those have come in the second innings.