Stephen Fleming will make the last of 111 Test appearances for New Zealand while two players make their debuts in the deciding third cricket Test against England starting Saturday at Napier. Fleming, 34, will retire from international cricket at the end of the England series, currently locked 1-1 after New Zealand won the first Test at Hamilton and England won the second at Wellington. He will make his final Test appearance in the company of South African-born all-rounder Grant Elliott and teenage fast bowler Tim Southee who were both named Friday to make their Test debuts. Elliott replaces Jacob Oram, who is sidelined with a hip injury, and Southee replaces Kyle Mills, who has an injured knee. Southee, 19, is the youngest player to make his Test debut for New Zealand since current captain Daniel Vettori first played for the Black Caps a decade ago aged 18. He will share the new ball with Chris Martin while New Zealand will use two spinners - Vettori and Jeetan Patel - as it did in the first test. Elliott, who played first-class cricket for Guateng before moving to New Zealand, will take up the heavy workload created by Oram's absence. Fleming plans to leave the Test arena after a 14-year career in which he has become New Zealand's most-capped and most prolific batsman, scorer of nine centuries and more than 7,000 runs. His valedictory series hasn't yet produced a century – his highest score in four innings is 66 - but he hopes to leave McLean Park with a rare series win over England. Fleming needs 113 runs from his last two innings to push his Test average past 40, but he says whatever happens he will retire from Test cricket with some disappointments. “I'll have a lot of regrets, most of them statistical, and most don't mean anything,” he said. “Once you leave the game, all the things you've been striving to do don't mean that much.” Fleming said there was no point now going through the “what ifs?” ‘If I average 45 the team might have won more games. It's not about me getting a badge of honor to wear on my chest for the rest of my life,” he said. “I'm not that fazed. But if I get above 40 it means I've got another 100 runs and we've got a score that enables us to put pressure on England.” England is likely to stick with the team that won last week's second Test by 126 runs. Captain Michael Vaughan believes a superb batting pitch in Napier might be enough to prompt a form improvement from Kevin Pietersen, who has struggled throughout the series. __
