The ICC T20 World Cup 2024 is starting from June 2 and many people have been eagerly waiting for this great tournament for a long time. A total of 20 teams will face each other in this important tournament. Let us tell you, New Zealand had the option to play warm-up matches by the ICC but they have ignored this decision. The New Zealand team believes that they will focus more on group matches instead of warm-up matches.

There are many players from New Zealand who are also currently participating in the Indian Premier League 2024. Not only this, there were some players who had recently played T20 series against Pakistan. New Zealand cricket team head coach Gary Stead believes that his team may face a lot of challenges in the West Indies.

According to ESPNcricinfo, Gary Stead said, ‘West Indies is a very difficult place to start. It is not easy for anyone to be together at the same time in Trinidad and Tobago. Not a warm-up match for us. How our team has many players who have been participating in the IPL for the last two months and some players have just returned from the Pakistan tour.

There are many players in our team who are very experienced and have also participated in the Caribbean Premier League for the first time. Therefore, we are expressing confidence in those players and are also trying to make them participate in training as much as possible. From the very first match, we want to perform well against the opposition team and put them under pressure.

We would like to give our best performance even against new teams: Gary Stead

Gary Stead further said, ‘There are two players who have not participated in the T20 World Cup before. Looking at this, it can be said that there are many experienced players in our team and they already have a lot of experience of playing in this tournament. There are some teams in our group which are new. We would like to perform well against them also and play according to our plan.

Let us tell you, New Zealand has been placed in Group C in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024. West Indies, Afghanistan, Uganda and Papua New Guinea are also in this group. All the teams have performed very well in international cricket for some time and all would definitely like to leave their mark in the upcoming tournament.