Duncan Fletcher to join New Zealand as the Kiwi's lose 5th consecutive ODI
England’s former coach Duncan Fletcher will join the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 captain will work as a consultant for the Kiwi players. He has been appointed with the team in an attempt to “keep the environment
fresh.”
Roger Mortimer, NZC high performance manager, said "http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Duncan-c54739 is a highly regarded coach and we are looking forward to having someone with his cricketing knowledge engage with the team." Fletcher’s appointment comes after New Zealand’s defeat at the hands of
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 in the opening match of the 5 match ODI series.
India went into the game with a much changed side and a new stand in captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028, Sachin Tendulkar,
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virender-Sehwag-c95429, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh. The Indian team still managed a comfortable 40 run win over the visiting side.
Martin Guptill started the Kiwi’s chase of India’s 276 runs in a good fashion hitting 5 boundaries in the opening six overs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashish-Nehra-c46293 adjusted his length to stem the flow of runs and took Jamie How’s wicket with a quick bouncer. Ashwin was brought on
early inside the powerplay overs by captain Gambhir which paid dividends. Ashwin picked up Guptill’s wicket with a flighted delievery and the runs dried up. New Zealand never looked like chasing the target of 276 after that and were always behind the required
run rate. Their only hope Ross Taylor perished in the 32nd over leaving the tail with a daunting task. The 9th wicket partnership between Kyle http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mills-c76321 and Nathan McCullum gave Gautam Gambhir a scare but the partnership was broken with the
Kiwi’s requiring another 41runs.
Earlier in the day, the home team had performed well with the bat after a slow start. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Virat-Kohli-c95424 was the star of India’s innings scoring 105 runs of 104 balls. Yuvraj Singh’s innings was on the slower side but he played well for his 42. Yousaf Pathan did
no harm to his chances of making it into the playing eleven of the World Cup by scoring a quick fire 29. Out of form batsmen Suresh Raina failed to perform again managing to score only 13 runs. India’s batting collapsed towards the end as the final 6 wickets
fell for just 26 runs. However, the score of 276 proved to be more than enough in the end.
Ross Taylor captained the New Zealand team for the opening game in the absence of Daniel Vetorri. He expressed his disappointment in the failure of middle order batsmen and has stated, “we have to play a lot better.” At one stage New Zealand lost 5 quick
wickets adding just 38 runs. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 said, "Like Twenty20, one-day cricket is all about momentum. It would have been nice to start off on a winning note. Now we know that we have to play a lot better than we did today."
The defeat at Guwahati is New Zealand’s seventh consecutive defeat in ODIs. Bangladesh destroyed the Kiwi’s 4-0 in a home series before the black caps came to India. 5 consecutive defeats in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 and India, have raised question marks on New Zealand’s
chances in the upcoming 2011 world cup.
The Kiwi’s will be hoping that Fletcher’s assistance can get the team back to winning ways before the world cup starts next year. The second match of the series will be played at Jaipur on the 1st of December.
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