Xtra Time Web Desk : The Kiwis on Monday were crushed by Team India’s bang on bowling performance at Wankhede in the absence of their skipper Kane Williamson by a humongous margin of 372 runs. And speaking about their disappointing performance, the Blackcaps stand in skipper Tom Latham reflected upon his team’s poor show in the Mumbai Test.
“In these conditions, you can’t just allow them to bowl to, they are very good and they are very accurate and they don’t give you much to hurt. For us it is about trying to put more pressure on them to get more fielders away from the bat. For us it is about guys sitting, having a certain plan and being able to stick to that and unfortunately if you have a plan and if you get out then that’s the game and that’s just cricket. I think from our point of view something that we always talk about is the character and the effort that the group has been put in. Obviously when you get bowled out for 60-odd in your first innings. It obviously puts you behind. Something that we talked about is the character in the group and try to stay in the game and put everything you can and we have certainly done that in the last four days. Take the first innings out of it then obviously it’s a different story,” said the stand in Kiwi skipper at the post match press conference.
The southpaw also opened up about the off form of his team’s most experienced batter Ross Taylor and added, “Ross obviously had the approach where they are trying to put their bowlers under pressure. As soon as you do that then sub-continent teams tend to take players away from the bat quickly. Unfortunately for Ross, it did not work out.”
New Zealand would now return home without winning a single match in this tour of India.