Martin Guptill confident of a turnaround in ODI series – Cricket News Update
Experienced New Zealand batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Guptill-c1980, is confident about the Kiwis making a turnaround in the upcoming One Day International series against West Indies, commencing at Kingston on Thursday, July 5, 2012.
“We're expecting to win, we're not just here to compete,” said the 25-year-old New Zealand opener ahead of the opening ODI of the five-match series.
“We've got a good side here and we believe that we've got an opportunity to right the wrongs that happened in Miami and put up a good showing,” he added further.
The depleted New Zealand squad, without the likes of Ross http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 T20 rankings.
However, the right-handed top-order batsman from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Auckland-c766 insisted that the 2-0 series loss has not dented their confidence, adding that they have regrouped after almost a month apart and will start the ODI series afresh.
“We're a lot clearer on what we need to do now and we're going to work on that over the next couple of days,” said Guptill, the veteran of 60 One Day Internationals and 31 T20 Internationals. “At the end of the day we just have to look at them (the
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760) as another name,” the Kiwi opener urged.
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 team had not played a match since March, ahead of the neutral venue two-match T20 series against West Indies, at Lauderhill, where the Blackcaps suffered heavy defeats in both fixtures - a 56-run crushing in the first
and a 61-run thumping in the second and final T20 International.
The Kiwis also suffered some huge injury blows in the T20 series opener, with skipper Ross Taylor picking up a shoulder injury, while spin bowler http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-McDonald-c1042 Hira dislocated his middle finger joint. While Taylor is with the team and is likely to make a
comeback in the later stages of the ODI series, Hira has been sent back home.
The 21-year-old middle-order batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KS-Williamson-c1813, who stood in for injured Taylor in the second T20 International last Sunday, will continue skippering the side.
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