Are NZ The Most Unlucky Team?

One cannot help but think so after the way things panned out in Australia.
New Zealand came within a distance of a breath to take the Chappell Hadlee Trophy out of Australia’s hands. Yet fate would deny them that with rain in the final match reducing the game firstly and then, put paid to any further play when New Zealand had set the game up for a potentially enthralling victory.
The Twenty20 match then proved no different for the Trans Tasmanian rivals. New Zealand lost by a run but really they should not have. Brendon McCullum gave them their most rousing contest of the match with sixty-one exciting runs in the chase for 151. Yet cruelly it would seem that New Zealand were destined to be denied.
New Zealand appeared to have come a long way away from their days in the early nineties when being three down for next to nothing was not an uncommon scenario for them. But the tiny team from so far south showed spirit and gumption that could not be found in many others.

Just when they appeared to be a team to be reckoned with, Stephen Fleming hung up his gloves, Daniel Vettori took over, the ICL came out and New Zealand were once again left to the painful process of once again fitting in pieces in the jigsaw puzzle. That the likes of Grant Elliot and Brendon McCullum, Ross Taylor and Kyle Mills are trying to put New Zealand on the road map again is admirable.
But it appears their strategies were not always sound, losing too many wickets too early, leaving matters too late by getting bogged down and suffocating for runs in singles which is a one day game is akin to suicide. This is something the new coach Andy Moles will have to work closely with the boys to bring home, because their next opponent is the team that shamed the Australians.
There is no shame losing, but losing can be such a hateful feeling

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