NZC and tour management meet on Friday to review Bangladesh debacle
The winless one-day tour to Bangladesh has prompted the tour management to seek a crisis meeting with the New Zealand Cricket board as part of the tour de-brief and review.
National coach, Mark Greatbatch, the high performance director, Roger Mortimer, and the thrashed skipper, Daniel Vettori, who just returned from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Bangladesh-c747 after a humiliating 4-0 whitewash against Bangladesh, will meet with the board on Friday, October
22nd.
The trio, soon after its return to home, requested the New Zealand Cricket board for an opportunity to have a one-on-one meeting with the board that was duly accepted by the board. The trio is also expected to discuss its plans for the next month’s tour
to India and also about the squad expected to be announced on Sunday, 24th October.
Kiwis recent tour to Bangladesh was hit by poor weather conditions. Heavy showers washed out two warm up matches and the second one-day of the five match series as well.
The visiting line-up struggled against the pace and turn of Bengali pitches and failed to cross the 200 score line in three of their four innings. The 4-0 series loss has dropped the Black Caps to seventh place on the ODI team rankings of ICC.
Until Bangladesh’s 9-run victory in the series opener on 5th October, the tigers had beaten the Kiwis only once in their 17 attempts.
The World Cup campaign, which has become a shambles following an unprecedented 4-0 mauling in Bangladesh, would also be the agenda of the emergency meeting.
Bangladesh is one of the three host nations of the 2011 World Cup, the other two being http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 and Sri Lanka, and the Kiwi’s tour to Bangladesh was continuation of their Sub-continent acclimatisation campaign ahead of ICC’s flagship event.
Earlier the Black Caps had toured http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 to play a tri-nation series against India and Sri Lanka and returned home without making the final of the series.
In the last part of their campaign, Vettori’s men will head to India next month to play three Test matches followed by a five-match one-day series. The Test series kicks off on 4th November. The fixtures against the Men in Blue are Kiwis’ final
part of the overseas preparations for the next year’s World Cup in the Sub-continent. On their return home from India, they will face http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 at home.
Geoff Allott, NZC's general manager of cricket, has brushed off the prospects of any changes to management. "It's important that we remain confident in the people we have", Allott told the media reporters. "We've committed to a structure, and we'll be assessed
by those decisions".
The senior players of the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 side were heavily criticised for the devastating tour to Bangladesh. Former fast bowler of New Zealand, Simon Doull, was derisive in his analysis of the team. Doull said that Vettori, who was leading
the batting as well bowling department besides his captaincy duties, did not get any help from the other senior members of the team.
"He [Vettori] is under pressure and I'm not sure he's coping with it all that well", said Doull. "I can't see any answers. We're going into a World Cup in two and a half months and if we think we're going to be anywhere near the top
eight we're dreaming at the moment. They could turn it around but it's going to take a miracle".
A statement from the New Zealand Cricket read that there would be no more public comments on the Bangladesh debacle before the tour management meets the board on Friday.
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