Under-prepared and over-confident NZ
New Zealand went into their opening match of what will be a lengthy summer under-prepared, over-confident and got done by Bangladesh, writes Adam Parore in the New Zealand Herald .
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
New Zealand went into their opening match of what will be a lengthy summer under-prepared, over-confident and got done by Bangladesh, writes Adam Parore in the New Zealand Herald.
I still believe New Zealand deserve to be ranked second or third based on what we've seen in the past few seasons, but even if they win the series 2-1, which they should do with this rough start out of the way, it won't do the trick on the rankings list ... they'd be embarrassed at turning in a half-arsed performance when they'd have wanted to hit the ground running. They'll know there will be teams around the world chuckling at their slip-up, and that will sting.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo