Ish Sodhi confident of New Zealand bouncing back after Sylhet Test defeat
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!New Zealand leg spinner Ish Sodhi has supported the “experienced heads” in his team to recover from the loss in the first Test match against Bangladesh.
The second Test between Bangladesh and New Zealand will begin on Wednesday in Mirpur.
New Zealand Test captain Tim Southee believes that his team didn’t bowl consistently in the proper places for long enough after they lost by 150 runs in Sylhet.
“The great success this [New Zealand] team’s had over the past decade has been being able to park these sort of things pretty quickly, whether it’s success or loss,” Sodhi was quoted as saying by ESPN cricinfo.
“That’s going to be tested though. It is never anything to take for granted. It is always hard to come back off the back of a loss. But with the experienced heads here, we’ve been there, we’ve done that. We know how to apply ourselves into the next games. Hopefully, that’s something that we can commit to really well and apply to this next game.”It is obviously tough to come out on the losing side in that first game in Sylhet, but I think as the Test progressed, we found a bit more rhythm. Obviously, I haven’t played Test cricket in a while, so it’s always going to be tough in these conditions. The way that Bangladesh played, they certainly outplayed us. But upon reflection, I think they gave us a blueprint on what’s successful in these conditions, and hopefully we can apply that to this next Test match,” the spinner added.
In the first Test, Bangladesh scored 310 and 338 points, totals that Southee felt were higher than what New Zealand should have surrendered. Sodhi also urged the bowlers to be precise in order to level the two-Test series. -TIN Bureau