Published: Oct 27, 2015, 05:06 PM (IST)
Edited: Nov 01, 2015, 03:24 PM (IST)
New Zealand will continue playing their usual brand of cricket in the upcoming series against Australia is BJ Watling‘s words are anything to go by. Watling said New Zealand will continue playing the way they do and will refrain from indulging in unnecessary on field chit-chat, which Australians are (in)famous for . Watling has maintained that New Zealand will look to make the bat and ball do the talking rather than making use of verbals. Under the new captaincy of Steven Smith, it remains to be seen whether Australia will continue shooting verbal volleys at the opposition.
The last time the teams faced off was in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) where Brad Haddin gave New Zealanders a lot of sledge attacks which he later said was revenge for the New Zealanders being discomfortingly nice in their home game in the group stages of the World Cup.
“We will keep playing the way that we play and deal with situations at the time really,” Watling was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au. “We will play our brand of cricket and they will play theirs so that’s that,” he added.
Watling also said that though the defeat in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 still hurts, it will in no way affect New Zealand’s performance in the three-match Test series especially because it’s a different format of the game. “It was obviously disappointing to lose it,” he said. “But it is Test cricket now, not one-day cricket, so we have three huge Tests we have to be up to and hopefully we can come out on top.”
