Ross Taylor ready for India – Cricket News Update
Kiwi Captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849, wants his side to regroup before the upcoming tour of India, highlighting consistency as the major area of improvement following an abysmal Caribbean experience. He further emphasized the need to play better
cricket against the no.2 ranked ODI team, which recently triumphed emphatically against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758.
"Obviously us batters are not performing as consistently as we would like and the bowlers were bowling well in periods but not the whole time," Taylor said. "Losing crucial wickets at crucial times in both Test matches have hurt us
... We need to address our issues very quickly and we've got http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 coming up in just over a week and a half's time, so we need to regroup quickly and play a lot better than we have here."
The Kiwi indeed had an appalling time against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/West-Indies-c760, where they suffered overwhelming defeats in all formats of the game. After losing the T20Is and ODIs, the tourists were expected to give a better account of themselves against
their tormentor-in-chief http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sunil-Philip-Narine-c91869 in the subsequent Test series.
However, they failed to pick his deliveries and their policy of playing the ball of the back-foot eventually came to their downfall in the opening Test, before their woes continued in the second game, where they were held back by paceman
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/N-Deonarine-c2051, culminating in a five-wicket defeat.
Consistency had been a major issue for the Black Caps in both departments of the game. No batter managed to score a hundred, despite http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Guptill-c1980 emerging as the highest run-getter of the series, scoring 277 runs at an impressive
average of 69.25. The other members failed to chip in on a regular basis, with the skipper himself averaged a mediocre 31.50.
In the bowling department, the usually reliable http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Trent-Boult-c2708
and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Neil-Wagner-c79182, offered hope but got little backing from the batters.
However, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 is hopeful that the team will rectify their mistakes and start afresh when they take on the Men in Blue in the first Test from August 23.
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