Cricket Australia Emerging Players Tournament

In late July and early
August the Australian
Institute of Sport hosted a
four-team tournament
including "emerging
players" teams from New
Zealand, India and South
Africa. The tournament
combined both Twenty20
matches (New Zealand
played two) and one-day
matches (six). Southee
played all eight matches
for New Zealand, finishing
with 12 wickets - twice as
many as any of his team-
mates - at 28.66.[38] He
scored runs quickly with 55
off 56 balls in the one-days
matches.[39] New Zealand
won only one game.
New Zealand A tour to
India
Within a week of the
tournament finishing in
Australia, Southee arrived
in Chennai, India to play
four two-day games and a
50-over match with the
New Zealand A side.
Southee took only three
wickets in the two-day
matches (one in each of
New Zealand's bowling
innings, with one game
ruined by rain). In the one-
day match he took 3/37 off
six overs.[40]
This tour was also Shane
Bond's return to New
Zealand cricket, having
been banned after he
joined the rebel Indian
Cricket League.[41] Bond
was then chosen ahead of
Southee for the 2009 ICC
Champions Trophy in
South Africa.[42]
2009-2010 season
After missing the 2009
winter season Southee
became a regular selection
for New Zealand in the
2009-10 summer, playing
18 of the season's 22
international matches
against Pakistan,
Bangladesh and Australia.
[43] He also played ten
HRV Cup matches for
Northern Districts in
January.[44]
Against Pakistan
With bowler Daryl Tuffey
unavailable due to a
broken hand, Southee
regained a place in the
New Zealand side that
travelled to Abu Dhabi and
Dubai to play three ODIs
and two Twenty20s against
Pakistan.[45][46] Before the
series captain and stand-in
coach Daniel Vettori said
he hoped that Southee
could "cement his place" in
the side.[47] Vettori picked
him for all five matches,
across which he took seven
wickets (four in the ODIs,
three in Twenty20s).[43]
The teams moved to New
Zealand for a three test
series. Before the series
Southee played for an
invitational XI in a three-
day match against the
tourists[48] but he "didn't
think I bowled very
well"[49] and was omitted
for the first two tests. He
returned to Northern
Districts and immediately
took 8/27 in a Plunket
Shield match against
Wellington, the third-best
figures in Northern Districts
history.[49] (The Wellington
match was marred for
Southee by a two-day
suspension for swearing.
[50]) He was added to the
New Zealand team for the
third and final test, in
Napier, opening the
bowling and taking three
wickets.[43]