New Zealand win hearts with 'innovative and cute' World Cup team announcement
Cricket
Players' names were announced by their family members
(Web Desk) – New Zealand Cricket has opted for a unique but lovable style to announce the 15-member squad for ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2023.
Black Caps shared an adorable video on social media platform X, featuring the family members of the players picked for the mega cricket event.
It shows the players’ children, wives and other family members announcing their name as the cricket board called them “number 1 fans!”
— BLACKCAPS (@BLACKCAPS) September 11, 2023
The innovative idea of revealing the cricket team players was widely appreciated by the social media users as some of them described it as a “cute way”. Here are the reactions;
— Waqar Afridi (@WakaAfridi) September 11, 2023
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats) September 11, 2023
— Snap (@ObsessionSnap) September 11, 2023
— Mohammad Nawaj (@NawazJ78) September 11, 2023
Captain Kane Williamson and experienced bowler Tim Southee will join an exclusive group of players to be selected for four or more ICC Men’s Cricket World Cups after being confirmed in the BLACKCAPS squad for the 2023.
The experienced squad for the tournament which starts in India on October 5 was named this morning at an event at World Cup squad member Ish Sodhi’s old school, Papatoetoe High School in Auckland.
Williamson and Southee, who featured for the BLACKCAPS last time the tournament was held in India in 2011, are joined in the squad by six players who have been selected for the tournament for the first time.
Mark Chapman, Devon Conway, Daryl Mitchell and Glenn Phillips feature in a One Day World Cup squad for the first time having featured in T20 World Cup squads before. Allrounder Rachin Ravindra and batsman Will Young are selected in their first senior white ball World Cup squads. The group of new players is balanced by an experienced core including Trent Boult, Matt Henry and Tom Latham who all feature in their third 50-over World Cup squads.
Latham, also named as vice-captain in the squad, will continue with the keeping gloves after taking a record-equaling 21 catches at the last event. Lockie Ferguson, Jimmy Neesham, Mitchell Santner and Ish Sodhi are also included in the squad having first featured in England and Wales in 2019.
