Patience the key for New Zealand
On New Zealand's previous tours of Australia, the strategy of being aggressive has produced mixed results
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
On New Zealand's previous tours of Australia, the strategy of being aggressive has produced mixed results. Now with Australia fielding a weakened attack, minus Pat Cummins, it's important that New Zealand don't go on an all-out attack and instead be patient, writes Mark Richardson in the New Zealand Herald.
Good things will come to those Black Caps batsmen who wait. This is because they won't have to wait too long. The feeling is that, when you bat against Australia, you have to be aggressive and take it to them. That is a mentality that sits well with our top six - but this time I feel that approach is not necessary.
In the Sunday Star Times, Phil Gifford lists three reasons for New Zealand to be modestly confident of beating Australia.
The last time the Black Caps beat the boys in the baggy greens, in 1993, Jim Bolger was prime minister, an 11-year-old boy, Dan Carter, was in Year 7 at Ellesmere College, and a hot New Zealand movie The Piano featured another 11-year-old, Anna Paquin.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo