Champions Trophy: India vs New Zealand important for momentum, says Robin Uthappa

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Dubai, March 1 (ANI): Ahead of India vs New Zealand clash in ICC Champions Trophy, former wicketkeeper Robin Uthappa said that the match will be important for momentum.

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00:00As far as momentum is concerned it's a short tournament and so given that it's a short

00:05tournament I think you want to maintain momentum and I think the Indian team given that they've

00:10started well and created great momentum for themselves in this tournament will want to

00:14maintain it because they're practically playing the next game on the bounce so it will be serious

00:20business for them tomorrow. Of course now Indians are through to the semi-final I mean you'd see

00:25this team going all the way and repeating the heroics of 2013. Yeah I think they seem pretty

00:31much favourites to do that to be honest. I think we've got the team, we've got the form, the bowlers

00:36are bowling well, the batters are batting exceptionally well, we've got the advantage of

00:42familiar conditions than other teams so obviously everything India stands to gain whilst going to the

00:49back end of the tournament so definitely a little bit of advantage for them. 300th of the eye for

00:54none other than Virat, Kofi, you know you played with the likes of Sachin, Soura, Bravo, 300th of the eye,

01:01what does it mean for a player of this stage of 14,000 runs, 51 tons in ODI?

01:05Well I think you reach a point in your career when you've played consistently so well that every

01:09other game you'd be breaking a record and I think Virat finds himself in that kind of a place and

01:14truly deserves it for for the kind of you know contribution and for what he's done for our country

01:19as far as batting and you know as an individual player is concerned he's done exceptionally well

01:25and truly deserves it. I don't think there's anyone who's made their debut in the last five years who

01:32will end up achieving 300 games in their career so I think this is a this is no mean feat so extremely

01:39happy for him. Of course a lot of people are questioning his place also in the side but the

01:43best way inside is by scoring a century at least to Pakistan. Well yeah it's uh it's par for the course

01:50isn't it in our country where uh you don't perform for for some time and then you're always they're

01:55calling for your head but uh I've always believed that a player of his caliber and players who are

02:00special uh deserve to have a long rope and he's done everything to you know auger that long rope for

02:06himself uh over the last year or so um and it's not like he's been out of form you know it's just

02:12that he hasn't performed to the high standards that he set for himself so in that sense um you

02:18know it's in that sense I think he still continue to do fairly well um but we'd love we've he's just

02:24got us so used to uh such a high caliber of performances that uh anything less than that then we start

02:30complaining um but we hope that he can continue to bat the way he's batting and bring us more laurels.

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