Captain Ross Taylor on Thursday called on his New Zealand team to play more disciplined cricket and show extra fight in Friday's second Test against Australia in Hobart. The Kiwis were humiliated on the fourth day of the first Gabba Test on Sunday, routed for 150 and setting the Australians just 19 runs for a nine-wicket victory.
Taylor, who castigated himself for his poor scores of 14 and a first-ball duck, said it was a tough loss to take for the eighth-ranked Black Caps. "I think we're trying to keep as upbeat as possible. We're very disappointed in the performance that we put in and everyone's hurting and we're disappointed for the fans back home," Taylor said.
"As a unit the bowlers bowled well in patches. We've just got to be a bit more consistent and as a batting unit we just have to try to leave outside the offstump and let them bowl at us. "A lot of the deliveries the Australians did bowl weren't even hitting the stumps when they got us out, so, me included, we've just got to play a lot tighter than we did in Brisbane." New Zealand will again start as underdogs against Michael Clarke's Australians, with the Black Caps chasing their first win across the Tasman since 1985.
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