I played quite a bit of cricket against Ben Wheeler and Brendon Diamanti who both had (relatively short) Black Caps careers as well as a bunch of good provincial guys for CD and Canterbury.
I was a pretty dour opening batsmen and I could survive for a while against them but there was little chance of me playing any successful attacking shots. Were just on another level to me. (I did hit Wheels for 6 back over his head once — nobody needs to know he was about 15 at the time though!
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