‘When you go to World Cups, you desire experience,’ states head coach Gary Stead after Kiwis name provisionary 15-man team.
Captain Kane Williamson will play his 6th Twenty20 World Cup champion in June as New Zealand called a skilled 15-man team with veteran pacer Tim Southee as another addition.
The competition, occurring in the United States and the West Indies from June 2 to 30, will be Williamson’s 4th as captain and Southee’s seventh as a gamer.
Southee, 35, has actually taken a record 157 T20 worldwide wickets and leads the attack together with skilled rate bowler Trent Boult, 34, who will be playing his 5th T20 World Cup.
Joint bowler Matt Henry and batting all-rounder Rachin Ravindra, voted the emerging cricketer of 2023, are the only gamers in the team who have actually not played in a T20 World Cup before.
“When you go to World Cups, you desire experience,” stated New Zealand head coach Gary Stead.
“It’s an amazing team with great deals of alternatives for Kane and I to think about in regards to balance, pitches and surface areas.”
New Zealand will hunt for a first title after reaching the semifinals of the last 3 competitions and the last in 2021.
“We anticipate the locations in the West Indies to provide rather diverse conditions and feel we’ve picked a team with the scope to adjust to those conditions,” Stead stated.
Seamers Adam Milne and Kyle Jamieson were eliminated by injury.
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Henry edged out Ben Sears for the uninhabited joint bowling berth in an attack that likewise includes Trent Boult and Lockie Ferguson.
“Matt has actually worked incredibly hard on his abilities throughout the stages of a T20 video game to come back into choice factor to consider,” coach Stead stated.
“Rachin has actually made every post a winner in the previous 12 months and it was interesting to see him continue that trajectory over the summer season in the T20 format versus Australia.”
Thirteen members of the 15-man team have actually had current experience in the Caribbean, including on the last trip of the West Indies in 2022.
New Zealand team for T20 World Cup: Kane Williamson (captain), Finn Allen, Trent Boult, Michael Bracewell, Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Lockie Ferguson, Matt Henry, Daryl Mitchell, Jimmy Neesham, Glenn Phillips, Rachin Ravindra, Mitchell Santner, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee