Napier: New Zealand coach Mike Hesson said the Blackcaps will welcome the Indian batsmen with a barrage of aggressive fast bowling as the five-match ODI series starts here tomorrow with the first ODI.
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NZ pacer Adam Milne bowls during the third ODI against WI in Queenstown recently. PIC/AFP.
Hesson said New Zealand would unleash new pace sensation Adam Milne on India, who are short of match practice and are coming from a tough tour of South Africa. The Kiwis enjoy the home advantage as the McLean Park pitch will offer enough pace for its fired-up pace attack. Hesson expected little to change at McLean Park in Napier when the two sides face-off for the first ODI.
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New Zealand coach Mike Hesson
&ldquo;Quick, bouncy, a good wicket, a high scoring game, that&rsquo;s the pattern we get there and it&rsquo;s been pretty consistent,&rdquo; Hesson was quoted as saying by stuff.co.nz.
Though the New Zealand pacers conceded 363-4 in the fifth ODI against the West Indies in Hamilton, Hesson feels against India his pacemen will step-up the accelerator.
&ldquo;If you just try and deny there comes a time in the game with only four fielders out where it&rsquo;s extremely hard to defend. If you&rsquo;re able to keep taking wickets at the top you can control those middle overs. That&rsquo;s a pattern that&rsquo;s worked well for us and one we&rsquo;d certainly look to continue,&rdquo; Hesson said.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s aggression in terms of where you bowl the ball, the pace you bowl and the areas you bowl. You&rsquo;re not just running up and putting it there and hoping good things will happen, you&rsquo;re actually trying to make things happen. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a few guys who do that naturally so we&rsquo;ll certainly be encouraging that,&rdquo; he said.
How India performed at McLean Park, Napier . 25 MARCH 1994: New Zealand 240-5 (S Fleming 90, S Thomson 83; J Srinath 2-59) beat India 212-9 (A Jadeja 59; D Morrison 3-35) by 28 runs
. 16 FEBRUARY 1995: India 160-10 (Navjot Singh Sindhu 73; D Morrison 3-22) lost to New Zealand 162-6 (S Fleming 59; M Prabhakar 1-28) by 4 wickets
. 12 JANUARY 1999: New Zealand 213-10 (M Horne 61; S Tendulkar 3-34) lost to India 214-8 (S Ganguly 38, R Dravid 38; D Nash 2-43) by 2 wickets
. 29 DECEMBER 2002: New Zealand 254-9 (M Sinclair 78, N Astle 76; J Srinath 3-34) beat India 219-10 (V Sehwag 108; K Mills 3-45) by 35 runs
. 3 MARCH 2009: India 273-4 (MS Dhoni 84*, Virender Sehwag 77; I Butler 1-42) beat New Zealand 162-9 (M Guptill 64; H Singh 3-27) by 53 runs (D/L method)

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