New Zealand pacer Tim Southee, who was the part of the squad that recently won the World Test Championship against India has said his country be given more longer Test series.
In the last five years Kiwis have played 18 bilaterals out of which fiour have been three-match series while rest were only two-match series.
“I guess one of our strengths as a side is that we sort of just concentrate on what’s put in front of us, and what we try and achieve as a group, (but) I guess playing more Test cricket as a whole would be nice,” Southee was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo on Monday.
“We don’t play that many three-match series, so I guess just being able to play more Test matches and hopefully more three-match series rather than two-match series. But yeah, I think it’s tough with future tours programme (FTP) already being in place up to now, but just being able to perform at this level for a number of years and being a consistent side, I guess we have that right to play more Test cricket,” added Southee, who returned figures of 4/48 in the second innings of the WTC final to demolish India by eight wickets.
Southee said playing Test cricket gives prepare a side for a tougher challenges.
“As players, Test cricket is the pinnacle of the game, and you always want to play more. It’s something that we haven’t played a lot of, three-match series, so to be able to test yourself over three matches rather than just two matches — it’s obviously a lot more taxing, it’s a tougher battle to get yourself up and go again over three matches, but that’s the beauty of it.”
