Kristian Clarke , the 24-year-old Northern Districts fast bowler, has earned a maiden New Zealand call-up for the third and final ODI of the ongoing home series against England.

He is the replacement for Matt Henry , who has a calf strain, which ruled him out of the second ODI against England on Wednesday. Henry will return home to Christchurch from Hamilton, where the second ODI was played, instead of travelling with the team to Wellington, where the third game will be played on Saturday.

Clarke came into the squad with good all-round form behind him. On Thursday, he first scored an unbeaten 107-ball 100 not out, his first century in representative cricket, and then returned 3 for 57 as Northern Districts trounced Central Districts by 113 runs (DLS method) in a Ford Trophy ma

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