IND vs NZ 2017: New Zealand’s Coach Mike Hesson Vary of Team India’s Strengths
Oct 12, 2017 at 1:59 PM
New Zealand is all set to travel to India for the three-match One Day and T20 series scheduled to begin on 22nd October.
New Zealand has already picked up their nine core team players to travel for the series. The remaining six players will get picked by the selectors from the New Zealand ‘A’ squad which is already in India playing a limited-over series against India ‘A’.
New Zealand coach Mike Hesson feels his team needs to step up and get the ball rolling if they want to challenge the number one ranked team in the world at their home. The last time the Kiwis came to India, they lost the series 3-2.
However, they were one of the rare teams to challenge India in India in One Day Internationals. New Zealand is ranked fifth in the World, and their coach Mike Hesson is varying of the strength of Virat Kohli and his men after they defeated Australia 4-1 in the recent series in India. He said,
“Look, their record at home has been phenomenal in the last two or three years, you know going over there that you have to perform. Otherwise, you get taught a pretty harsh lesson. It’s important for us to adapt really quickly.”
He also presented his views on selecting the remaining six players from the New Zealand ‘A’ side and the challenges of playing in India. He said,
“The beauty of an A tour means we’ve already got people in India, adapting to conditions, so when they come in they should be as familiar as they’re going to be, “Obviously there’s the dew factor, the conditions are all very different depending on the grounds you go to, we’re going to rely a lot of the experience of our senior players.”
He also confirmed that Tom Latham will be shifted down the order and will get the wicket-keeping responsibilities for the upcoming series against India, he said,
“It would be fair to say Martin (Guptill) and Tom, although they have had some really good performances individually, haven’t really clicked at the top and certainly haven’t generated a strike-rate as a pair that we’d like.”