Taylor disappointed with lack of hundreds – Cricket News Update
Following their embarrassing Test series’ loss against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849 was again left disappointed with his side’s inability to convert their starts into big hundreds.
The win completed an easy 2-0 whitewash for the hosts, who took just over an hour of play on the fourth day to complete the remaining runs and clinch their first series win in over three years against a major Test playing nation.
For the Kiwis, their woes on the tour had no stopping, swept aside across all formats, owing to their inability to score big. That fact had been highlighted time and again by Taylor on the tour and his concluding remarks also offered similar observation
regarding his team’s most recent failure and their underperformance on the cricketing stage over the past 15 years.
"It's been around for a while," Taylor said of the lack of centuries. "If you go through the last 15-odd years, guys have been scoring a lot of fifties but they haven't been going on to score those hundreds and hundreds are what get you in Test matches and
put you on the front foot and hopefully win them. But when you're only getting fifties, sometimes it might be enough but more often than not it won't be."
The fact pointed out by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Guptill-c1980 scoring three half-centuries, and remaining the top-run getter by 277 runs. There were only two more half-centuries
from the visitors, coming from their skipper and vice-skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/BB-McCullum-c1129.
In comparison, the Windies relied on three century makers, including openers, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Marlon-Nathaniel-Samuels-c74804.
Looking closely at Taylor’s other observation; the Black Caps have scored the least amount of centuries in the past 15 years, tallying up to just 84 - 37 behind second placed Windies during that period.
With a tough away series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/John-Geoffrey-Wright-c67883.
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