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Sunil Gavaskar questions New Zealand batting order after defeat in Nagpur T20I – ‘Made no sense to me..’

Sunil Gavaskar questions New Zealand batting order after defeat in Nagpur T20I – ‘Made no sense to me..’

With the T20 World Cup not far away, former India captain Sunil Gavaskar said New Zealand’s batting order in Nagpur against India in the first T20I did not make sense as they succumbed to a heavy defeat. “It was a very good innings by Glenn Phillips from a New Zealand perspective. He’s got a 100 just a few days back. You don’t want somebody who’s scored a 100 to slump as far as form is concerned. You want that form to continue, because that augurs well. Not just for him, but also for the whole team. And that is the reason a little bit surprising that Daryl Mitchell, we’ve got a couple of 100s (in the ODIs) to come down at number six,” Gavaskar said on JioHotstar. “It didn’t make any sense to me, but maybe they had their own reasons why they wanted to. I thought he should have come in at number three. Just maybe ahead of Glen Phillips, and then carried on the same partnership. Who knows? They might have run India …