Wily Ashwin very hard to get away Guptill
Jaipur Nov 18 PTI New Zealand opener Martin Guptill finds Indias Ravichandran Ashwin very hard to get away as the off-spinner has an immaculate control over of his line length and speedAshwin has impressed ever since he made a white-ball comeback after four years He was effective in the T20 World Cup and on Wednesday changed the course of the first T20 by removing two New Zealand batters in the same over He had removed a well-set Mark Chapman and Tim Seifert He is a very wily bowler He has got great control of his line and length He just doesnt bowl bad balls I dont remember he bowling any bad balls throughout his career His change of pace is so subtle and well controlled he is just very hard to get away said Guptll at the post-match conference The opener smashed 70 off 42 balls but his team lost the game by five wickets New Zealand have now lost back to back games after going down in the T20 World Cup final on Sunday We have not played bad cricket in the last two games It is just were just coming out on the wrong side Its the way cricket can go Its certainly different scheduling A World Cup final two days ago and then jump on a plane and here we are in India playing another one Guptill shared an 109-run stand with Mark Chapman to take New Zealand to 164 for six a total he thought was 10 runs short It was not ideal losing Daryl Mitchell in the first over but the way Chappy Chapman adapted having not played a lot of cricket lately to coming in and spending some time in the middle and to put on 100 partnership with him and set up for the death phase really help the team get to that competitive totalWe were still 10 run shorts where we could have been I dont think we quite nailed the end of the death phase as well as we could have but that could happen And I think the bowlers did extremely well to pull it back after they India go off to a fairly quick start so to lose within a couple of balls to spare we werent far off said Guptill He added that India tour is a good opportunity for cricketers those who have not played in the country Yeah its cool isnt it I mean Rachin wasnt expected to play on this tour Jimmy was down with a bit of a stomach bug so you know and obviously Chappie and also Todd getting the time as well PTI BS KHS KHS
Jaipur Nov 18 PTI New Zealand opener Martin Guptill finds Indias Ravichandran Ashwin very hard to get away as the off-spinner has an immaculate control over of his line length and speedAshwin has impressed ever since he made a white-ball comeback after four years He was effective in the T20 World Cup and on Wednesday changed the course of the first T20 by removing two New Zealand batters in the same over He had removed a well-set Mark Chapman and Tim Seifert He is a very wily bowler He has got great control of his line and length He just doesnt bowl bad balls I dont remember he bowling any bad balls throughout his career His change of pace is so subtle and well controlled he is just very hard to get away said Guptll at the post-match conference The opener smashed 70 off 42 balls but his team lost the game by five wickets New Zealand have now lost back to back games after going down in the T20 World Cup final on Sunday We have not played bad cricket in the last two games It is just were just coming out on the wrong side Its the way cricket can go Its certainly different scheduling A World Cup final two days ago and then jump on a plane and here we are in India playing another one Guptill shared an 109-run stand with Mark Chapman to take New Zealand to 164 for six a total he thought was 10 runs short It was not ideal losing Daryl Mitchell in the first over but the way Chappy Chapman adapted having not played a lot of cricket lately to coming in and spending some time in the middle and to put on 100 partnership with him and set up for the death phase really help the team get to that competitive totalWe were still 10 run shorts where we could have been I dont think we quite nailed the end of the death phase as well as we could have but that could happen And I think the bowlers did extremely well to pull it back after they India go off to a fairly quick start so to lose within a couple of balls to spare we werent far off said Guptill He added that India tour is a good opportunity for cricketers those who have not played in the country Yeah its cool isnt it I mean Rachin wasnt expected to play on this tour Jimmy was down with a bit of a stomach bug so you know and obviously Chappie and also Todd getting the time as well PTI BS KHS KHS
