Need to attack the spinners: Ross Taylor
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With the odds stacked against his team except for the favourable weather, New Zealand skipper Ross Taylor is pinning his hope on the Kiwis’ fighting qualities, heading into the second Test.
A comprehensive defeat in the opener at Hyderabad notwithstanding, the visitors are hopeful of a better show here. “It’s never easy when you lose a Test by over an innings.
We need to forget about it as quickly as possible… In a Test, we go session by session. It only takes only one bad session to ruin a Test.
So we don’t want to look too far ahead. We’re still in the series. We haven’t won many Tests in India and we need to be courageous. We’ve nothing to lose,” quipped the Kiwi skipper.
Aggression could be an option for the Kiwis to negate the spin threat. “We need to find ways of playing (Ravichandran) Ashwin and Pragyan Ojha.
We have to be brave and attack them to put pressure back on them. And when we attack them, hopefully, there won’t be many men around the bat,” said the captain.
Small wonder, the likes of Taylor, Guptill, Brendon McCullum and James Franklin were trying out a variety of attacking strokes — while playing away from the wicket and charging down the track — in the exclusive nets for spinners.
The skipper noted that he would like to continue with the same combination that played in Hyderabad and the team is ready to fight out against unfamiliar conditions. “It’s a new learning experience. We are a young side, but that’s no excuse. We’re learning both on and off the field.
NZ are normally fighters and we’ll be trying to fight as hard as we can,” remarked the Kiwi batting mainstay. “Two 100s in 30 innings is not great, but I feel I’m not far away from scoring big. When you score two centuries in 30 innings, sometimes you score two in two,” said Taylor, putting up a brave front.
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