Patient Caddick left jumping for joy
SECOND TEST: Somerset paceman celebrates successful return in front of England board chief
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Your support makes all the difference.Andy Caddick took three New Zealand wickets in Wellington yesterday and then revealed just what it meant to be playing Test cricket again.
"When the captain came to tell me I was in, I was jumping around in my room once he had left," the 29-year-old Somerset bowler said after a successful start to the second Test at the Basin Reserve.
"It's great just to be back in the side," said Caddick, who, in tandem with Darren Gough, had the Kiwis on the back foot at 56 for 6. "I've had to be pretty patient this winter but I've always had confidence in my own ability. It's been a very frustrating time, by and large, over the last three years but my leg injury taught me to be patient - and that's what I have tried to be on this tour.
"I am pleased to be back in the side, mainly, although of course it's nice to be playing here against New Zealand.
"I have tried to keep going on this trip, although on occasions you do get a bit annoyed."
Caddick's parents, Chris and Audrey, were able to fly from Christchurch to watch their son make his Test comeback - and they will now be looking forward to seeing him perform in his home town in the third Test.
Caddick grew up in Christchurch, representing New Zealand in the Youth World Cup in 1987/88, but then moved to England in what he unashamedly admits was a "career move".
He first played Test cricket for England in 1993 against Australia. However, chronic shin injury problems then threatened his career. He played only half a dozen Championship games in 1995 and his international comeback did not start until August last summer, when he was chosen for the second Test against Pakistan at Headingley.
Inexplicably, after a good performance, he was left out of the next Test and, on this tour, it has taken him more than two months to regain his place.
The New Zealand captain, Lee Germon, defended his decision to bat. "It looks like a batting track to me; still does," he said. "This match is still winnable from our perspective. We have to knuckle down. Then we have to knock them over. No two ways about it."
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