Two Mumbai-based specialists—Saurabh Walkar and Saurabh Ambatkar—are helping both England and New Zealand achieve their desired goals in the World Cup which starts here today.

Walkar, 38, who earlier worked with the Mumbai Ranji Trophy team, Rajasthan Royals and the Afghanistan national team as a performance analyst, has been travelling with NZ team since their last ODI series against England and Bangladesh. Stand-in Kiwi skipper Tom Latham must be hoping to make maximum use of Walkar’s knowledge of Indian pitches and his experience in analysing opposing players’ plus points as well as limitations.