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Wandering in wilderness
ISLAMABAD. Feb 6 (AFP): It will take more than red socks to save New Zealand from a World Cup humiliation.
All that will be red next month, according to the form book, will be Kiwi faces.
The side's desperate form — and the llth-hour loss of world-class batsman Martin Crowe — could not have come at a more Inappropriate time either.
While Peter Blake and his yacht Crew, in their lucky red socks, were returning home with the America's cup and the all blacks — with identical socks in their kit bags -- were powering to rugby's World Cup final, the cricket side were taking a South African, Indian, Australian. Sri Lankan and West Indian battering... during their centenary season.
A battered Kiwi doesn't look pretty at the best of times. A bout of internecine blood-letting made things look even worse.
The low point in the horror story came against South Africa. Manager Mike Sand-lant resigned, coach Geoff Howarth followed and three players — Stephen Fleming. Matthew Hart and Dion Nash
— were suspended after admitting they smoked cannabis on tour.
But there were plenty more ghastly follow-ups. In March, the side generously gave Sri Lanka its first Test win abroad. Then there was the worst reverse In the side's history, by an innings and 322 runs, against the West Indies. And defeat in the Centenary Test against South Africa, the first game between the sides in 31 years.
It was time for the next bout of drastic action. In came former batsman Glenn Turner as coach in May. In came a sports psychologist (the previous year, the New Zealanders had tried yoga).
Out went Ken Rutherford, backed as captain and replaced by the previously uncapped Canterbury captain Lee Germon.
There was to be Ao miracle. The side travelled to India and lost the first Test In three days, only the third time India had seen a side defeated Inside nine sessions.
Rutherford, by now leading Transvaal, gave the knife a further twist in his autobiography by firing off a few final salvoes at some of his
former teammates.
Then came the biggest bombshell of them all when Crowe, playing on shattered knees for the last few years, failed a World Cup fitness test and was forced into retirement along with his 5.000 Test runs.
All of which suggests that the team, despite the recent 2-2 one day draw with Pakistan, will go to Pakistan with limited ambitions.
First, make sure of beating the Group B minnows from Holland and the United Arab Emirates, the two nonTest sides in the group. Then do a tot of praying before the quarter finals.
Much is likely to depend on Germon's leadership qualities in bringing out the best of a very young and inexperienced squad with a few world-clgss talents to comfort them.
Chris Cairns, an explosive all-rounder. is one. He took three wickets and scythed 103 off 87 balls in the fourth one-dayer against India. A repeat of that sort of form would not go amiss.
And. if there Is time, why not phone up Blake and see if ■ he has any lucky foot-wann-ers to spare?