Taylor wanted a 3-0 win over Pakistan
Ross Taylor, the fill-in captain for New Zealand, has said that he wanted to register a clean-sweep against Pakistan in the recently concluded three-match Twenty20 international series. There were speculations around him that his team was complacent in the
third twenty over match of the series. In response, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 has denied that his unit was over-confident going into the final game in Christchurch.
Pakistan trounced New Zealand by a massive margin of 103 runs in the third T20 match at the AMI Stadium. In the first innings, the visitors piled up a mammoth 183-run total in order to put the opposition under pressure. In pursuit, the home side completely
faltered and in doing so, they only managed a poor total of 80 runs.
Taylor said in an interview, "It's a very disappointing way to end the series … when your four top batsmen get out for nothing it's pretty tough chasing a total."
In addition, the hosts were off to their worst start in twenty over cricket as they were 3 runs for the loss of four wickets. In the process, the top four Kiwi batsmen recorded ducks. Apart from Scott Styris, who made 45 runs, every other played failed to
register a double-figure score.
Nevertheless, in the previous two encounters, the tourists were completely outplayed by an inform Kiwi side. New Zealand won the first two games significantly and sealed the series after the conclusion of the second game.
Taylor added, "We wanted to win the series 3-0 after what's happened over the last few months.”And it's disappointing to put out a performance like that in front of a pretty good crowd."
The http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 skipper lauded the efforts of the Pakistan team and said that his team was out done by a hugely talented unit. It was a great all-round performance from the touring side; especially the bowling was superb as their bowlers needed only 13.5
overs to earn the win for their team.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Shahid-Afridi-c2482 bowled brilliantly and troubled the opposition willowers with variations, recording career best figures of 4/14, in the match. At the same time, Razzak wreaked havoc for the rival batsmen with the white kookaburra, scalping excellent figures
of 3/13.
The first Test match of the two-match series between the two sides starts on January 7. After a win in the final encounter, the momentum is with http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755. However, the longest version of the game will be a different story altogether.
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