New Zealand media believes Black Caps created a monster out of England

England team ended the unbeaten run of New Zealand side in the World T20 and also crushed all their hopes of  making it final after the Eoin Morgan-led team defeated the Kiwis quite easily by seven wickets.

The New Zealand media acknowledged the achievement of the English team and have compared them to Frankenstein’s monster. The New Zealand media has said states that England used Black Caps’ own game plan against them to trounce then in the World Twenty20 semi-final.

According to Black Caps cricket pundits, the seeds of the yesterday’s result were sown when the sides met in Wellington last year at the Cricket World Cup. Eventual finalists New Zealand had beaten England by eight wickets. Tthis loss is regarded as the factor which prompted Morgan’s men to review their style and adopt the Black Caps’ aggressive tactics.

“There was an element of Frankenstein to New Zealand’s departure from the Twenty20 World Cup,” Fairfax New Zealand’s Duncan Johnstone wrote.

“This was an England team that the Black Caps turned into a monster. And the monster came back to destroy them.”

The New Zealand Herald’s Andrew Alderson said England also mimicked the Black Caps by taking the emotion out of their cricket, delivering “a clinical dissection which wouldn’t have looked amiss in an operating theatre”.

“If the Black Caps could be deemed ‘the masters’, their apprentices trumped them. England have morphed into a side with swagger and chutzpah”, since their Wellington humiliation, rating them a good chance of winning the decider on Sunday against either India or the West Indies,” he wrote.

Johnstone said the heavy loss was a “limp” end to a campaign that saw the Black Caps cruise through the group stages undefeated, including wins over Australia, India and Pakistan.

In recent times, New Zealanders proved that they can advance to the business end of the limited-overs tournaments but have failed to advance to the next level and win a 50-over or T20 World Cup.

But, the young side under the new leadership of Kane Williamson impressed many with their brand of cricket. Williamson has proved himself an able captain after Brendon McCullum’s retirement. He has already given glimpses of his tactical prowess in the World T20.

Former Blackcaps paceman Simon Doull said Williamson’s men exceeded expectations, finally showing they could play in Indian conditions, and should not be judged too harshly.

“We’ve had a good tournament and adapted to conditions really well, I don’t think this is a failure,” he told Radio Sport.

“Today’s game will be disappointing, but if you’d told me at the start of the tournament that we’ll go there and make the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup on the sub-continent, I’d have said ‘no way’.”