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Ish Sodhi, a legspinner from New Zealand, has
supported the “experienced heads” in his team to recover from the
loss in the first Test match against Bangladesh. Tim Southee, the captain of
New Zealand, believed that his team didn’t bowl consistently in the proper
places for long enough after they lost by 150 runs in Sylhet.
The final batsman dismissed at Sylhet, Sodhi, claimed
that the home team’s outstanding performance also provided New Zealand with the
“blueprint” for how to play in these conditions.
“The great success this [New Zealand] team’s had
over the past decade has been being able to park these sort of things pretty
quickly, whether it’s success or loss,” Sodhi said. “That’s going to
be tested though. It is never anything to take for granted. It is always hard
to come back off the back of a loss. But with the experienced heads here, we’ve
been there, we’ve done that. We know how to apply ourselves into the next
games. Hopefully, that’s something that we can commit to really well and apply
to this next game.
“It is obviously tough to come out on the losing
side in that first game in Sylhet, but I think as the Test progressed, we found
a bit more rhythm. Obviously, I haven’t played Test cricket in a while, so it’s
always going to be tough in these conditions. The way that Bangladesh played,
they certainly outplayed us. But upon reflection, I think they gave us a
blueprint on what’s successful in these conditions, and hopefully we can apply
that to this next Test match.”
In the first Test, Bangladesh scored 338 and 310,
totals that Southee believed were higher than what New Zealand ought to have
given up. In an effort to tie the two-Test series, Sodhi also urged the bowlers
to be accurate in their deliveries.
“Sometimes you wish you could have adapted sooner
in the last game, but we can’t sort of look back now. We’ve got to try to find
all the learnings that we had in that last game and apply them to this one, and
hopefully we can come out on the winning side.”