Sports News: New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori, coach Mark Greatbatch and high performance director, Roger Mortimer, will meet with New Zealand Cricket’s board on October 22 to review the disastrous ODI tour of Bangladesh, which ended in a 4-0 thrashing on Sunday. They are also expected to discuss their upcoming tour of India, for which the squad will be named on October 24, and their World Cup preparation, which is a shambles following an unprecedented defeat in Bangladesh, one of the host nations of the tournament in 2011.
The result plunged New Zealand to seventh in the ICC’s ODI rankings, their lowest position since November 2005, but despite acknowledging the gravity of the situation NZC’s general manager of cricket, Geoff Allott, said changes to management were unlikely to happen. “It’s important that we remain confident in the people we have,” he told a paper. “We’ve committed to a structure, and we’ll be assessed by those decisions.”
“Disappointing is an understatement. When you lose 4-0 in a country you’re going to be playing a World Cup match, then it’s a big concern,” Allott said. “From a fitness perspective, and a technical perspective, we’ve got the goods, it’s actually the decision-making. Throughout the series there were cross-bat shots. Some senior players would be the first to put their hands up and say they didn’t lead by example.”
After the series, Vettori had said it was “probably the lowest point in New Zealand cricket for a long, long time. To stare down 4-0 is incredibly disappointing and something that will stay with us. We have to recover from it pretty quickly, otherwise people will be pretty desolate about New Zealand cricket.”
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