Kiwi coach wary of pace threat – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Geoffrey-Wright-c67883 says that his team is wary of the threat posed by the Australian bowling attack in the upcoming Test series.
Wright, 57, was well aware of the rise of Aussie’s newest teenager, Patrick Cummins and expects the youngster to feature in both the matches with the first Test match being played at Brisbane from December 1.
Cummins, who has yet to make an official berth in the Test arena has come in for positive reviews after showing promise in the recently concluded one day series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 which the Kangaroos won by a margin of 2-1.
With the Aussies faltering badly in the first longer version game on their ongoing tour of the Proteas, it has allowed the 18-year-old to knock on the management door to hand him a debut for the second Test, which starts tomorrow at Johannesburg.
However, it will be the upcoming home assignments which will be on teenager’s mind, which sees his national team playing New Zealand before taking on the Men In Blue.
For Wright, he feels that their upcoming opponents will rely on their pace batteries to do most of the damage and expects his team to deal with it accordingly.
"I've heard he's pretty quick, and that will be interesting because we have a feeling they might look to expose us to a lot of pace, and we're going to have to stand up and be brave," Wright said. "But having said that, those types of bowlers can provide
you with scoring opportunities.
Looking at the composition of his own team, the head coach knows that they do not possess pacers who could constantly bowl at high speed but will bank on his seamers, the likes of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KD-Mills-c1781 to perform ably through the course of the series.
Southee has not played competitive match for over six months as a knee injury forced him to sit out the recent http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 series, but will be eager to perform against a strong Australian unit.
"That [speed] is one adjustment we'll have to make, because we don't have too many bowlers in this country running around bowling 145kph plus. The boys are aware of that and have been doing some work on bowling machines etc. to simulate those conditions,”
added Wright.
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