ODI World Cup 2023: It was extremely spectacular how shut we received, says Neesham after New Zealand suffers heartbreak in opposition to Australia

Sport offers you a very good reminiscence, however it definitely wasn’t a cheerful flashback for Jimmy Neesham when he fell wanting his crease off the penultimate ball of an exciting Trans-Tasman rivalry contest on the HPCA Stadium right here on Saturday.

“Actually, that was the first thing I thought of when I was coming off, that it’s going to look very, very similar. I mean, that’s the nature isn’t it? You want to be desperate in those situations, and you’d much rather get run out on your stomach than on your feet,” Neesham stated after the Kiwis but once more discovered themselves on the unsuitable facet of a nail-biter, pipped by the Australians by 5 runs in a tense World Cup match.

Neesham was referring to Martin Guptill’s run-out within the 2019 World Cup ultimate that consigned New Zealand to an agonising defeat on boundary countback, a rule that has been finished away with since.

With seven runs wanted off two balls, Neesham didn’t put away a full toss from Mitchell Starc and was compelled to come back again for a determined second run after heaving the ball to deep midwicket.

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Wicketkeeper Josh Inglis dived after choosing up a barely wayward throw from Marnus Labuschagne and left Neesham with the only comfort of getting run out on his ’abdomen’.

The parallels with that fateful ultimate from 4 years in the past didn’t finish there for Neesham because the all-rounder weighed in on the vagaries of the game.

“You work for six and a half hours every day, and it comes down to potentially two deliveries. Four years ago, we worked for two months, and it came down to one delivery. It is just the nature of the game. The World Cup seems to bring out these contests with a bit of desperation. I think it was incredibly impressive how close we got,” he stated.

But the 33-year-old, who says he’s on the ‘back end’ of his profession, doesn’t deal with the outcomes anymore. After all, he has additionally been on the correct facet of tense contests, most notably when he defended seven runs within the ultimate over in opposition to West Indies in 2019 and had Carlos Braithwaite caught within the deep off the ultimate ball to seal a five-run win for New Zealand.

“I don’t focus on the result as much anymore. That’s one of the things you learn as you get a little bit older. I am closer towards the back end of my career, so it doesn’t pay to stress too much on the results. Everyone wants to win, especially in world tournaments, but that can’t dictate how you want to play the game… On another day, one ball different, and the result is different,” he stated.

Playing simply his second sport within the ongoing event and slotted into the eleven on Saturday solely after Mark Chapman was dominated out on account of a calf niggle, Neesham would have been eyeing a redemption after he was given a 27-run shellacking within the forty eighth over of Australia’s innings by Pat Cummins and Josh Inglis.

But the ever-maturing Neesham has in all probability taken a leaf out of Rudyard Kipling’s poetry and is treating ‘triumph and disaster just the same’.

“You learn from failure and success,” he says whereas additionally giving extra prudent recommendation to aspiring sportspersons than he did 4 years in the past.

“Definitely take up cricket. Take up whatever they want to take up,” Neesham quips.