Daniel Vettori eager to erase bitter memories of Bangladesh debacle
New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori is eager to erase the bitter memories of Bangladesh debacle by rectifying their blunders when they take on India in the five-match one-day series which gets underway at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Guwahati
on Sunday, 28th of November.
Talking to reporters on the eve of the first One Day International, the visiting skipper said that a series win would help the side regain a bit of lost pride before they return to the subcontinent next year for the upcoming 2011 ICC World
Cup.
"It's important in our build up to the World Cup. I know we had a disappointing series over there (Bangladesh),” said Vettori. "We have come here to rectify that in a lot of ways.”
The tour of India is New Zealand’s last phase of their subcontinent acclimatization plan ahead of the next year’s World Cup that would be jointly hosted by three subcontinent Test playing nations including India, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747.
The Black Caps started their acclimatization plan back in August this year with a tour of Sri Lanka to play a tri-nation one-day tournament - India and Sri Lanka being the other two teams. The tour failed to give Kiwis the desired results.
The Sri Lanka tour was followed by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754’s tour of Bangladesh where the side faced the worst disaster of their history losing the five match one-day series against the Dhaka boys by 4-0 – after a match was washed out by the persistent
rain.
And in the last phase, the Kiwis have so far lost the Test series against India by 1-0 and are going to start the one-day leg of the tour tomorrow with an aim of rectifying their mistakes. The side will be missing the services of the experienced
Jesse Ryder, after the batsman flew back home picking up a calf injury.
"Jesse Ryder will definitely come into the picture (for the World Cup) with what he has done. But he has an injury now so this is a chance to have a look at others. For people looking towards the World Cup, it's about playing every game
and winning them. Both teams would like to win every game to get some confidence going into the World Cup," said vettori.
Vettori feels the toss would not affect the match results as such. The New Zealand skipper rated the Guwahati wicket as a slower one and expected that would go slower and slower as the game goes on.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gautam-Gambhir-c58623 but Vettori said that his side would not underestimate the opposition as they all are good players
and have been performing well in the lucrative Indian Premier League.
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