Left-armer Mitchell Starc nominated hard-hitting McCullum and talented first drop Kane Williamson as the key wickets for the hosts.
Basketball obscurantists have nominated a hard-nosed journeyman as one early practitioner of the bump.
"They nominated a hard-liner, and he wanted to make a statement in eastern Germany," said Thomas Mayer, the chief European economist at Deutsche Bank.
Mr. Rafsanjani was expected to be nominated by hard-line legislators for the influential post of speaker of the Parliament that convenes on Saturday.
As President-elect, Donald Trump tweeted against the United Nations Security Council's condemnation of settlements in Palestinian territory, promised to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem, and nominated a hard-line settlement supporter to be his Ambassador to Israel.
Today the party opens its convention in Long Beach, Calif., where Mr. Buchanan says he expects to be nominated after working hard all year to take over the party organization state by state.
He seemed to have blundered in nominating a hard-line conservative as attorney general when he clearly needed to build a coalition with the moderates.
Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, the main Roman Catholic party, said he intended to nominate his hard-line Protestant rival, the Rev. Ian Paisley, to lead the province's government.
She did not know a soul, yet when they began electing board members, she stood up, swallowed hard, and nominated herself for president.
Others nominated him so the hard left could again be vanquished, a mistake that would not have been made in Mr Blair's day.
