Brendan's First Test Stories in South Africa

Brendan McCullum was an under 17 at Tagoe captain. Was quite precocious in terms of how he operated. He went through similar things to Tim Saudi and that you get picked really young. You all of a sudden you've come from being a leader in a group to just being, you know, one of the boys and one of the young ones. That first three months was, was challenging from a performance point of view. But we were lucky we had enough wins. We had terrible start, obviously, but it couldn't have got any worse. When we were unstaffed against South Africa - which wasn't very full strength - I think they probably gave me a little bit