McCullum concerned for Ross Taylor and Team after captaincy change – Cricket News Update
Newly appointed New Zealand captain in all three formats, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, after a distressed Taylor made himself unavailable for the entire outing,
refusing to lead the side in a “split captaincy” scenario.
“I'm more concerned now with how the team is handling the situation and where we go from here, rather than my own individual accolade of picking up the captaincy. I'm obviously worried for Ross and how he is dealing with things at the moment, and obviously
how we try and ensure that we pull together this team inside a very short space of time for what is going to be an incredibly tough tour,” said McCullum, while talking at a press conference.
McCullum shared that Taylor, being an integral part of the Kiwi side, will be welcomed to the team whenever he is good and ready. After Taylor’s statement on Friday, where he revealed that he never had the support of coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mike-J-Hesson-c76286, numerous players across
the team are likely to be affected by the whole episode.
“I know it hasn't been a great process with the way it's unfolded and I know there is a lot of anger towards it,” McCullum added.
While refuting speculations that McCullum played a vital role in NZC’s decision, he shared that he was asked to captain the side for ODIs and T20s just two days ago, followed by Test captaincy, a day earlier.
Reflecting on his relationship with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915, McCullum feels that it was just the media which depicted friction between them since Taylor took over as captain 16 months ago. However, in reality, he shared that both players are very good and respectful towards
each other.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in the sub-continent, where the Kiwis just won a single Test in the entire face-off, a controversy at
this time will further hurt the Black Caps.
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