The New Zealand skipper added that his side did not have much to work off in terms of seeing their opponents in action in the Test format.<\/p>\n
“From an Ireland point of view there’s not a huge amount of footage of Test matches so for us it’s really important for us to adapt on the go and adapt to conditions as quickly as we can.<\/p>\n
“We’ve been here playing ODIs and T20 cricket so we have experienced this part of the world, and these conditions, before.<\/p>\n
“Fingers crossed, the weather remains sunny like this and we can get a full game in.”<\/p>\n
New Zealand will face England at Lord’s, the Oval and Trent Bridge in June.<\/p>\n
“We know what we’ve got coming up in a few weeks but our focus is solely on this Test match,” emphasised the NZ captain.<\/p>\n
Ireland’s participation in Test cricket has been sporadic at best and Latham believes they would benefit from greater exposure to that form of the sport.<\/p>\n
“I think from a Test match point of view I guess the experience of playing more and more, you can only gain positive experiences from being in those situations. <\/p>\n
“I think as cricketers the more first-class cricket you can play, it’s where you hone your skills. <\/p>\n
“We play eight first-class games a year back home, which isn’t a huge amount, but it’s obviously a little more than Ireland play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New Zealand skipper added that his side did not have much to work off in terms of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-696778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}