Mike Hesson rakes up Virat Kohli's poor NZ tour; calls the Indian team 'best equipped'

Raking up Virat Kohli's poor New Zealand tour of Feb-March 2019, Former New Zealand coach Mike Hesson felt that Kohli and ors simply didn’t get any time to adjust to conditions. Kohli had an unforgettable tour with bat as he mand to go past fifty-run mark just once in ODI. Furrmore, in Test series, Indian skipper failed to even go past 20-run mark. 

But former Kiwi coach begs to differ and feels that conditions were tough. He asserted India to be  best equipped to have travelled to New Zealand, adding that  conditions were challenging.

India had batted first in both Tests and Hesson said that was an important factor as conditions got better as matches wore on. He went on to say that conditions were challenging for everyone, adding that it got easy later on. Hesson feels that Kohli and ors simply didn’t get any time to adjust to conditions. 

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Hesson lauds NZ's 'exceptional' plan for Kohli

Furrmore, Hesson said that New Zealand’s plans for Virat was exceptional and asserted that New Zealand have had best of attacks for a long time.

Hesson is currently holed up in an apartment in Bengaluru. He was set to coach Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2020 season of Indian Premier League but season is under a cloud of uncertainty due to its postponement to April 15 and subsequent three-week lockdown imposed by Indian government.

whole cricket calendar has ground to a halt as well and Hesson feels that this will affect game financially. Speaking on that, Hesson said that business model of a sport can survive without income coming in and mentioned that it will be a huge challenge to every nation around world on how y are going to deal with this period of uncertainty.

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(With Inputs from ncies)