Shane Warne’s aggressive captaincy inspired new Kiwi captain Ross Taylor – Cricket News Update
The dazzling middle-order batsman, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849, was recently appointed as the skipper of the New Zealand team. Along with receiving a lot of congratulatory messages, Taylor has been getting many captaincy tips from the cricket gurus.
However, the 27-year-old skipper is not ready to pay any head to advices from anyone except http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shane-Keith-Warne-c89672, who inspired him with his aggressive captaincy during the recent season of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
Taylor represented Warne-led http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals in the fourth edition of the lucrative Twenty20 league. Although, the Kiwi batsman failed to steer his side to the second round of the tournament, he learnt a lot of captaincy tactics from the great Aussie leg-spinner.
Taylor was given the responsibility to lead the side following Daniel Vettori’s decision to quit One Day International (ODI) cricket after the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup 2011. During the recent mega event, the Black Caps repeated the history of 1992 and 1999 editions
of the showpiece event and suffered an embarrassing defeat in the semi-final clash of the World Cup.
The newly-appointed Kiwi captain felt that the biggest reason behind New Zealand’s failure to reach the top of international rankings is the negative mindset of the players. He aimed to infuse an attacking and aggressive approach in the side, the way Warne
did with his IPL teammates.
"Warnie is one of the most aggressive captains. One of the things I learnt from Warnie and admired about him was trying to get the best out of the team and individuals, and just winning from anywhere. If you have a mindset of winning from any situation then
more often than not those tight games will go your way," said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915.
Before being appointed as the regular skipper, the Wellington-born batsman has served http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 in 11 ODIs as stand-in captain. Taylor further explained that the first thing that Kiwis need to do is to rub out the fear of losing from their mind and play
positive cricket.
"I think sometimes we probably did feel that way [that a draw was as good as a win. If we go out there to win, it's a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Timothy-Francis-Bloomfield-c94006 positive mindset to have," added the attacking Kiwi batsman.
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