The contingent took a flight from Auckland airport and now they’d be making their method to the UK.
The official Twitter deal with of BlackCaps posted a photograph of the contingent departing from the airport they usually captioned the submit as: “Time to fly! #ENGvNZ #WTC21.”
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— BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) 1621080709000
Three gamers — Kane Williamson, Kyle Jamieson, and Mitchell Santner are at the moment within the Maldives as they headed there after the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 received indefinitely suspended.
The trio could be leaving for the UK from Maldives.
Earlier this week, New Zealand Cricket (NZC) had introduced that wicketkeeper-batsman BJ Watling will probably be retiring from worldwide cricket after the tour of England.
The 35-year-old has been a stalwart of the Check aspect since debuting in 2009 as a gap batsman, occurring to determine himself as a world-class keeper-batsman and claiming quite a few information in his 73 Exams to this point.
Watling holds the New Zealand Check dismissals report with 249 catches (excluding 10 as a fielder) and eight stumpings — the perfect numbers of any present Check keepers. Watling’s batting statistics are equally eye-catching: with eight Check centuries to his identify and New Zealand information for the fourth and fifth-highest partnerships: 362 with Brendon McCullum in opposition to India on the Basin Reserve in 2014, and 365* with present captain Kane Williamson in opposition to Sri Lanka on the similar floor a yr later.
He’s simply the ninth Check keeper to attain a double hundred and was the primary to take action in opposition to England, when his Participant of the Match efficiency helped win a dramatic Check in opposition to England at Bay Oval in November 2019. He additionally featured in one other New Zealand record-partnership in that match as he and Mitchell Santner placed on 261 for the seventh wicket.