The former Kiwi opener feels that his team must learn from its mistakes and come out with a better performance in the quarterfinals against South Africa at Dhaka on Friday.
Published: Mar 21, 2011, 12:29 PM (IST)
Edited: Mar 21, 2011, 12:29 PM (IST)
New Zealand coach John Wright wants his batsmen to show more discipline
By CricketCountry Staff
Mumbai: Mar 21, 2011
New Zealand coach John Wright has said that his batsmen must show discipline if they are to progress further in the World Cup.
The Black Caps are licking their wounds after a confidence-shattering 112-run defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka in their final league game in Mumbai.
“We need to show more application to stay at the wicket. We’ve got the shot making but if we have to have the application to take the game deep. If we don’t score runs we’ll go home, it’s as simple as that,” Wright was quoted as saying by the Wellington-based The Dominion Post.
The former Kiwi opener feels that his team must learn from its mistakes and come out with a better performance in the quarterfinals against South Africa at Dhaka on Friday. “You just want batters who are desperate to make runs and want to work on their games all the time to make themselves better players. It’s frustrating when you see the same errors repeated over and over again,” he added.
But Wright’s three months in charge has seen the Black Caps make steady if not rapid improvement. Before Wright took over, New Zealand endured a dubious record of having lost 11 straight one-day matches. But since Wright has taken over, the Black Caps have beaten Pakistan three times in six matches as well as Kenya, Zimbabwe and Canada.
“I think we are making progress but that will be judged in the longer term,” he observed.
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