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T20 World Cup: ‘Kane Williamson Will Be Fine Before Pakistan Clash’, Says New Zealand라이브 바카라 Gary Stead

Kane Williamson hurt his hamstring towards the end of Sunrisers Hyderabad's IPL 2021 campaign. He did not play SRH's final game vs MI.

T20 World Cup: ‘Kane Williamson Will Be Fine Before Pakistan Clash’, Says New Zealand라이브 바카라 Gary Stead
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New Zealand head coach Gary Stead is confident that captain Kane Williamson, who hurt his hamstring during the IPL last week, will be fit in time for the team라이브 바카라 opening T20 World Cup fixture against Pakistan on October 26. (More Cricket News)

Williamson was left out of Sunrisers Hyderabad라이브 바카라 playing XI for their final match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021, but Stead played down concerns around the chances of the injury hurting Williamson's participation in the marquee event.

“Kane라이브 바카라 fine,” Stead told New Zealand Cricket. “He라이브 바카라 just had a very, very slight hamstring twinge, but he's getting through everything at the moment, he라이브 바카라 feeling good. They (Sunrisers Hyderabad) were out of the competition as well, so I'm not sure if that was something he had to play in.”

Williamson joined the New Zealand camp here from the IPL. Other members joining the national squad straight from the IPL 2021 included James Neesham and Adam Milne from Mumbai Indians alongside bowling coach Shane Bond.

With two weeks to go before New Zealand play their first match of the tournament, Stead is using the lead-up to the match to get his squad accustomed to the heat of the United Arab Emirates.

“Today we’ve probably trained in the hottest part of the day. Two o'clock we start and it라이브 바카라 somewhere between 35 and 38 degrees probably. You can feel you burn pretty quick. We've just got to keep the fluids up.

“A little bit of shock therapy and getting get people back into the hot weather and working hard,” Stead said. “...making sure we manage guys in the next wee-while and be clear around our training and what we’re trying to achieve. We're certainly not doing it to try and cook people.”

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