Ross http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 praises Kane Williamson’s captaincy – Cricket News Update
The injured New Zealand captain, Ross Taylor, on Wednesday lavished praise on the stand-in skipper Kane Williamson, saying the young batsman showed promising signs while leading the side in the second T20 International against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, at Lauderhill,
Florida, on Sunday, July 1, 2012.
“He was obviously very nervous and he only had a day to prepare,” said Taylor during a media encounter after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 received a 61-run thumping in Sunday’s game.
“His bowling changes were very good and he went with his gut which is quite often what you have to do. He's going to do the job for a few more games yet and he showed promising signs and the team got in behind him,” the middle-order batsman added further.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/KS-Williamson-c1813 to take the side's reins. The 28-year-old
Wellington-born cricketer has also been sidelined from the first part of the One Day International encounters.
Though the Kiwis lost that game with a massive margin, the team management, keeping faith in Williamson’s leadership qualities, has decided to retain him as the stand-in captain until Taylor returns to the side.
The New Zealand head coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Geoffrey-Wright-c67883 admitted that they did not want to put the burden of leading the side on Williamson’s young shoulders.
"It's the sort of leadership thing you don't want to thrust on [Williamson] too early,” said the Kiwi head coach ahead of the ODI series opener on Thursday. “To be quite frank, he's probably had more captaincy experience than most of the players in the party
so he was the obvious choice," Wright added further.
After losing the neutral venue two-match T20 series 2-0 to Windies, the Kiwis have moved to the Caribbean Islands to play a five-match ODI series and two Tests against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DJG-Sammy-c1382 and men. The One Day Internationals kick start in Jamaica on Thursday, July
5 and will run till July 16.
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