Victory over India will boost morale ahead of World T20, says James Franklin – Cricket News Update
New Zealand all-rounder James Franklin feels Tuesday’s narrow one-run win over former World Champions, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 World T20 Championship, commencing in Sri Lanka next
Tuesday.
“It has been a tough tour for us. We did badly in the Tests, but this (win) is definitely something we'll celebrate,” said the 31-year-old left-arm medium pacer at the post-match press conference here in Chennai, on Tuesday night.
“It is good to end on a winning note ahead of the (T20) World Cup where we are heading from here," he added further.
Sent into bat, the tourists rode on Brendon McCullum’s scintillating 91 to post an intimidating 167 for 5. They then restricted Dhoni and his Men in Blue to 166 for four in their stipulated 20 overs, to script a narrow one-run victory, and win the
two-match series 1-0, after the opening match at Visakhapatnam was washed out.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364 (34).
The Black Caps have been pooled with former champions http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 on September 18 and will run till October 7.
"We have certainly got a tough challenge in Sri Lanka, especially since we're grouped with two sub-continent sides,” said Franklin.
"But, we have to focus on our game and get better at what we have been doing and back ourselves to come good," the left-handed middle-order batsman added further.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754’s World T20 campaign gets underway against the unpredictable Bengali Tigers at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium, Pallekele on September 21.
The Black Caps will also play two warm-up matches against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 (September 15) and South Africa (September 17), at Colombo, before their tournament opener on Friday next week.
In the previous edition of the T20 World Cup, in the Caribbean in 2010, New Zealand faced a Super Eight elimination, after losing to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749.
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