WELLINGTON: Disgruntled former captain Ross Taylor has slammed New Zealand’s team management, dismissing head coach Mike Hesson’s advice as “laughable” and claiming he was not given enough support in his 18-month stint as skipper.
Taylor was stripped of the Twenty20 and one-day captaincy last week on Hesson’s recommendation, and rejected an offer to stay on as Test skipper in the wake of New Zealand’s drawn Test series away to Sri Lanka.
“I knew it’d be tough from the outset (with Hesson),” Taylor said in comments published on the New Zealand Herald’s website (www.nzherald.co.nz) yesterday.
“I gave him as much support as I could but it wasn’t reciprocated.
“We liaised during the Champions League,” he added.
“He wrote down a few things for me to improve on, which were laughable, frankly,” added Taylor who played with the Delhi Daredevils in October. REUTERS
