Greatbatch in favour of retaining Ross Taylor as captain – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849 and feels that the middle-order batsman should be retained as the Kiwi skipper for the upcoming tour of South Africa.
The Black Caps are going to tour South Africa later this month, where they will play three T20 Internationals, two Tests and three One Day Internationals against the Proteas.
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Despite the Kiwis struggling under Taylor’s captaincy, this would be quite a surprising move, since the Black Caps have shown signs of improvement recently, squaring the Test series in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 by winning the Colombo Test by 167 runs.
The former cricketer is extremely disappointed and feels that it is not the right time to demote Taylor from captaincy, especially because the team’s morale was high after winning their last Test.
“I feel sick in my stomach,” said Greatbatch. “The timing of it's dreadful. We've just won a Test match in Sri Lanka. You'd think they should be talking about what we did well and how we can learn from that. Yet we're talking more about changes, it's just ridiculous really.”
Greatbatch believes that Taylor is New Zealand’s most reliable batsman at the present moment and a demotion will hamper his motivation to play for the Black Caps. The former hard-hitting opening batsman wants the officials to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757.
“Ross is a decent person. He knows cricket, he's a wonderful cricketer. While he's been captain his numbers have gone up. If this is happening it must be hard for him to think that he really wants to play cricket in that environment,” the ex-coach added.
The forthcoming battle is going to test http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
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