New Zealand coach Gary Stead on Wednesday allayed apprehensions about captain Kane Williamson’s fitness ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup, saying the prolific run-off for the Black Caps’ opening Super 12 match against Pakistan on October 26- The getter will fit in time. .
Williamson was dropped from Sunrisers Hyderabad XI for their final match of the IPL last week, and Stead has revealed that the captain suffered a hamstring injury. However, the coach was quick to minimize the possibility of an injury crippling Williamson’s participation in the T20 World Cup.
“Kane is fine,” Stead told New Zealand Cricket. “He has a very minor injury to his hamstring, but he’s doing everything right at the moment, he’s feeling fine.
“They (Sunrisers Hyderabad) were also out of the competition, so I’m not sure that was something they had to play in.”
Williamson had reached the New Zealand camp in Dubai from the IPL for a six-day hotel quarantine. He was not the only recent arrival, with team members James Neesham and Adam Milne joining the Mumbai Indians group along with Shane Bond.
With the team as the team’s ‘fourth coach’, former fast bowler Bond is playing some surprising roles, focusing on the team’s spin bowlers and assistant bowling coach Shane Jurgensen.
Stead said, “So, in the last few days, Bondi also came, when Mumbai were knocked out. He has also been working with the spin bowlers especially in the tournament for us. So, he has been great and that’s it. Offers another set of hands to Shane [Jurgensen] When you see that there are a large number of bowlers in the team. He has been working especially with the spinners and working around their strategies.”
With two weeks to go before New Zealand play their first match of the tournament against Pakistan, Stead is leading the match to introduce his squad to the UAE heat.
“Today we trained in probably the hottest part of the day. Two o’clock we start and it’s somewhere between 35 and 38 degrees. You can feel like you burn out pretty quickly. We just need to keep the fluids up. Is.
“A little bit of shock therapy and getting people back into warmer weather and working harder. Still and then just making sure we manage people in the next wee and be clear about our training and what we’re trying to achieve.” We’re certainly not doing this to get people to cook and cook.”
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