John Wright offers New Zealand batsmen last words of advice – Cricket News Update
Following New Zealand’s disastrous tour of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Geoffrey-Wright-c67883 has offered some last words of advice to the struggling side’s batsmen, urging them to rotate the strike, and be more stringent
with evaluating performances.
“Being able to rotate the strike against all bowling and particularly the spinners. I see us continually at times getting pinned down one end and that allows bowlers to assert pressure on batsmen,” observed Wright, who will be succeeded by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mike-J-Hesson-c76286.
Wright also went on to encourage accountability, urging the batsmen to strictly evaluate their own performances and each others’, as opposed to offering excuses when reflecting on their poor outings.
“It is also very helpful if your team mates are brutally honest with you, and if you play a particularly inappropriate shot at any stage then you know that if you go back to that changing room you're not gonna exactly get a welcome,” he said.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754’s batting failures featured prominently during their recent defeats in the Caribbean. The 5-match ODI series, which the tourists lost 1-4, saw the Black Caps struggling to put substantial scores on the board, with batsmen managing occasional
high individual scores. Throughout the series, only 7 half-centuries were scored by Kiwi batsmen, and skipper http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849 remained the only one who managed a century (110 in the 4th ODI).
The Kiwis claimed only one ODI victory – an 88-run win in the 3rd match – owing to an intense bowling attack which restricted the Windies’, all out, to 161.
The Test series featured similarly mediocre batting performances, with the Black Caps registering only 5 half-tons, and no centuries. Struggling on the merciless Caribbean pitches, and failing to pick mystery spinner http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Philip-Narine-c91869, or measure up to pacer
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KAJ-Roach-c1758, the visitors buckled to a 0-2 whitewash in the extended-overs leg of the tour.
The Black Caps’ days of struggling on unfamiliar pitches, however, are far from over, and the Caribbean experience will prove useful as they go into their next assignment - a tour of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, where more spin-friendly surfaces await them. The tour, marking
Hesson's first assignment as coach, is due to kick off on August 23 with a 2-match Test series, followed by two T20Is.
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