For New Zealand all-rounder Brooke Halliday, getting accustomed to the warmth in India is the most important takeaway from the three-match ODI sequence in Ahmedabad final October and her ongoing two-week coaching stint on the CSK High Performance Centre (HPC) right here.
Halliday is a part of a bunch of 10 New Zealand girls gamers coaching right here as preparation for the upcoming girls’s ODI World Cup (Sept. 30 to Nov. 2) in India and Sri Lanka.
“It’s really hot over here. The biggest adjustment coming from New Zealand is probably the heat and how you deal with that. If we’re in New Zealand right now, it’s probably around 10 degrees. So, just being here for two weeks, I’m sure the body is going to appreciate that kind of adjustment to the heat. And hopefully, it means that again when we come back in October, that period of adjusting won’t be as long,” she stated on the CSK HPC floor.
“Then, the second part of it would just be the conditions. Just in the last seven days, I think we’ve kind of batted on four or five different kinds of pitches that do something slightly different. It means that we have to learn how to adjust and adapt really quickly. That’s the biggest thing we learned in October last year and also in this trip. Hopefully, it means that when we come back in October, we’ll be one step ahead already,” she added.
Halliday tailored to the circumstances sufficiently for her to change into the highest run-getter within the ODI sequence. The left-hander scored 133 runs at 44.33 throughout the three matches. Talking concerning the variations in dealing with spin in New Zealand and India, she stated: “You probably get a little bit more turn over here, and then the second part is the slowness. New Zealand is probably a little bit more skiddier.”
The 29-year-old stated she’s been particularly specializing in batting towards leg-spin in coaching.
