tim in 2010

Tours to New Zealand:
Bangladesh and Australia
In February Bangladesh
visited New Zealand for
three ODIs, one Twenty20
and a test. Southee went
wicketless in the Twenty20
and first ODI, then missed
the second ODI. He
returned with three wickets
in the third.[43] In the one-
off test he opened the
bowling and took four
wickets across two innings.
New Zealand won by 121
runs, giving them a clean
sweep of the tour.[51]
Australia's tour included
two Twenty20s, five ODIs
and two tests.[52] Southee
played all of these matches
except the first Twenty20.
[43] His series began slowly,
with only two wickets in his
first five games. But in the
last ODI he took 4/36 and
was man of the match in a
51-run victory (the match
was a dead rubber).[53]
Australia won the test
series easily. In the first
match New Zealand only
took five wickets, none of
them falling to Southee.
[54] In the second New
Zealand started by bowling
Australia out for 231.
Southee had four first-
innings wickets and added
two more top-order scalps
in the second. His two
batting scores - 22 not out
and 45 respectively - were
his best since his debut test.
[55][56]
2010 season
Building up to the 2011
World Cup, New Zealand's
northern tours in 2010
focused on short forms of
cricket. The team played
five matches at the 2010
ICC World Twenty20 in the
West Indies, an historic
two-match Twenty20 series
against Sri Lanka in the
United States , four ODIs in
a tournament with Sri
Lanka and India, a five-ODI
series in Bangladesh, then
five ODIs and three tests in
India. The tour to India
lasted until December.
Southee was a squad
member for every series of
the season, playing in 14 of
these 24 matches.[57]
Twenty20s: 2010 ICC
World tournament and
against Sri Lanka in the
USA
Ten months after missing
selection for the 2009 ICC
World Twenty20 Southee
played the first three of
New Zealand's five games
in the 2010 edition, taking
a single wicket in each,[57]
but was dropped on form.
[58] New Zealand were
knocked out at the "Super
8" stage.
New Zealand and Sri Lanka
then played two matches
at Central Broward
Regional Park in Lauderhill,
Florida. This was the first
time full ICC members
played each other in the
United States.[59] Across
the two games Southee
only bowled four overs,
ending with a combined
0/25.[57]
New Zealand in Sri
Lanka, Bangladesh and
India
The three sub-continental
countries that New Zealand
toured to in 2010 were to
host the ICC World Cup in
March and April 2011. The
tours were seen as
important pre-cup practice
[60] but New Zealand lost
every series.[61] Southee
took six wickets in seven
ODIs (including four in one
match), and four wickets in
two tests.
In August New Zealand
played a triangular one-day
tournament hosted by Sri
Lanka and including India.
They played four matches,
all in Dambulla, selecting
Southee for the second (a
loss to Sri Lanka) and
fourth (a "comprehensive
thrashing"[62] against
India), in which he took
four wickets. New Zealand
finished third.
It wasn't until October that
New Zealand toured again,
this time to Bangladesh for
five ODIs in Dhaka. The
tourists were "thoroughly
outplayed throughout the
series"[63] and didn't win a
match. Southee played in
two of the matches
without taking a wicket.
The team to India played
three tests (for the first
time since March) and five
ODIs. New Zealand didn't
win a game, though the
first two tests were drawn.
[64] Southee missed the
first test but replaced
Jeetan Patel for the last
two. He took four wickets
at an average of 56. He
played in three of the ODIs
but didn't bowl in the last
of them (India's chase only
lasted 22 overs[65]), and
took a combined 1/97.