Our challenge is to build partnership at top in next games: NZ coach

New Zealand coach Gary Stead Saturday said that the biggest challenge for his batsmen in the remainder of the series is to build partnerships at the top of the order New Zealand were dismissed for 234 in reply to Indias 324 for 4 to suffer a 90run loss in the second ODIThe hosts had lost the opening match by eight wickets Asked about the performance Stead saidIt performance has improved slightly but obviously not a polished performance from us Stead told reportersThey batted well and I was thinking it could have been 350 plus So I am pleased with the back end bowling performance there In the end the work Bracewell put in was a promising sign but it wasnt a complete performance by any means New Zealand failed to build partnership at the top with no 8 batsman Doug Bracewell 57 sharing 58 runs with no 10 Lockie FurgusenWe havent build partnership across the top 67 which was the strength of what we did so well against Sri Lanka and what we havent clicked or done here yet As a batting unit that is going to be our challenge going into the next three games to build those partnership the coach said Our guys know that you cant rely on lower order to win games its got to be the top order to score the majority of the runs we havent done that as yet in the two gamesI still have faith in our squad we are still in someway experimenting trying to work our what is our best XI is and it is an ongoing thing it will slightly change with the conditions as well he saidNew Zealand struggled against the wrist spin duo of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal who accounted for 12 wickets out of 20 wickets We didnt have the partnerships it is not that we cant play spin bowling it is just that we have taken some options which havent been the best option at times he saidLook I have faith on our guys We played spin very well against Sri Lanka so it is not like we cant it is just that we havent done it as effectively here Talking about the Indian spinners Stead said The two wrist spinners that they have here are very effective spinners Our challenge is to find a way to be betterBut look we wanted to be with the runrate in terms of the target we set ourself it is the wicket that hurt us so we have to find a way to minimise that specially in the first 30 oversWith the World Cup round the corner Stead said they are trying to find the right eleven The World Cup is still secondary We want to win this series first and foremost We are just still working on what we think is our best 11 and how to balance the team with right number of allrounders batsman and bowlers we are still working on that he said But to be perfectly honest is secondary thing for me at the moment it is still about working out in this series what we need to do to win three on a row nowCatch up on all the latest sports news and updates here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever