Test series against South Africa will be an excellent gauge of our progress says Ross http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 – Cricket News Update
The newly appointed http://www.senore.com/Cricket/LRPL-Taylor-c1849, reckons that the home Test series against South Africa, early next year, will be the real Test of their performance and will determine their progress in the coming six months.
While talking to media reporters on Friday, the 27-year-old Wellington batsman said that it will be a challenging summer, adding that the home series against Proteas will be an “excellent gauge” of their performance.
"It will be a very challenging summer of international cricket and we are looking forward to taking on South Africa and Zimbabwe at home in front of our fans," said Taylor.
"http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 is currently ranked second in world Test rankings so the three-Test series against them will be an excellent gauge of our progress," he added further.
Earlier, New Zealand Cricket announced its home schedule for the next southern hemisphere summer, where the Black Caps will host Zimbabwe and South Africa within a period of two months.
This will be Zimbabwe’s first cricketing tour of New Zealand in 11 years. The low-ranked team was banned from touring http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Zimbabwe-c3045 in 2001 following alleged human rights abuses by Robert Mugabe’s government. The travel sanctions, however,
were waived off earlier this month, provided the political situation in the country did not decline.
South Africa will tour New Zealand from February 17 to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/March-c74391 27 next year. During their six-week long tour of New Zealand, the Proteas will play three Twenty20 Internationals and three One Day Internationals before concluding the itinerary
with a three-match Test series.
Ross Taylor, who was appointed as the new Kiwi captain on the 21st of this month, after http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World Cup 2011, had also urged his team to be consistent in its performance
this summer as the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Wellington-c864 batsman is eying an upgrading in Test rankings.
“We're eighth in the Test rankings,” said Taylor. “If we can be somewhere from fourth to sixth in 12 months I think that would be a realistic goal. That's something I think we can attain in the next 12 to 18 months,” he added further.
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