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Wellington, Mar 22 (ANI): Not happy with his side’s 112-run defeat at the hands of Sri Lanka, New Zealand coach John Wright has hinted at a change in the batting order for the quarterfinal to be played against South Africa in Dhaka on Friday.

Before commencing their first training session since losing to Sri Lanka, skipper Daniel Vettori called his team-mates into a huddle. Coach John Wright and the rest of the support staff were politely asked to step away and the hard talking began.

“We need to show more application to stay at the wicket. We’ve got the shot making, but we have to have the application to take the game deep. If we don’t score runs we’ll go home, it’s as simple as that,” Stuff.co.nz quote Wright, as saying.

Wright simply wants to see his batsmen fight when their backs are against the wall.

“You just want batters who are desperate to make runs and want to work on their games all the time to make themselves better players. It’s frustrating when you see the same errors repeated over and over again. You must learn from your mistakes and that’s all I want really,” he said.

Wright hinted at a change in the batting order for the quarterfinal against South Africa in Dhaka on Friday night, with Scott Styris going back to No5.

“Ross Taylor is batting better than he was at the start of the tournament. Martin Guptill is making progress. But it would be nice to get something out of Jesse Ryder. We will probably look at moving Scott Styris up to five for this quarterfinal match too.

“Our top five are pretty critical. We don’t want to be in a situation where we are batting at 80-5 again. You don’t win too many games from there,” Wright said. (ANI)