(Reuters) – New Zealand might want to regulate rapidly to the tempo of the Dubai wicket in the event that they need to defeat India when the groups meet of their essential Twenty20 World Cup conflict on Sunday, bowler Tim Southee stated.
The Black Caps misplaced their opening T20 match in opposition to Pakistan on Tuesday by 5 wickets and face an India facet additionally in want of a win after struggling a defeat of their opener in opposition to the identical opposition.
“There’s loads of learnings to be taken from the primary recreation,” stated Southee, who claimed his a hundredth T20 wicket within the loss to Pakistan.
“We weren’t far off in opposition to a top quality Pakistan facet, however we have got to park that. We have to look ahead.
“It is such a brief match and there is not any straightforward video games.”
The New Zealanders shall be enjoying on the Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium for the primary time through the competitors whereas India misplaced on the similar floor of their opener, doubtlessly giving Virat Kohli’s facet a bonus.
“In every of the three grounds you play at it’s a must to adapt to all three, they provide completely different assistances for the seamers, which we noticed in Sharjah, the slower balls in the back of a size labored,” stated Southee.
“The Dubai wicket tended to have a bit extra tempo in it and appears to be a greater wicket, so now we have to adapt to that as rapidly as we will.”
Solely the highest two nations in every of the 2 teams within the Tremendous 12 part of the competitors advance to the final 4.
With Pakistan alredy notching up three convincing wins to prime the standings, New Zealand and India are at present in a battle for the second semi-final berth.
“They seem to be a high quality facet,” Southee stated of India. “They’ve proven that for a few years and for them coming off a loss they will be eager to win as nicely. So it ought to an amazing contest (between) two superb sides.”
(Reporting by Michael Church; Enhancing by Stephen Coates)
