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    "editor1": "<p><strong>T20 World Cup 2024 Updates:<\/strong> Coach Gary Stead said his <strong>New Zealand<\/strong> team have held &quot;honest conversations&quot; ahead of a do-or-die clash against the West Indies at the Twenty20 World Cup.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A stunning loss to Afghanistan in their opening game means the beaten 2021 finalists must win their remaining three pool matches to advance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>That starts with co-hosts the West Indies at the Brian Lara Stadium in Trinidad on Wednesday local time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;This is essentially like a knockout game. We have got to give it everything we can,&quot; Stead told New Zealand media on a video call.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;We have to win three games. We have to win them well.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>New Zealand were well beaten by Afghanistan, by 84 runs, for their first defeat to the Afghans in T20 cricket.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Stead said he may tinker with his line-up, but will resist making vast changes.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;I think one of the dangers is if you chop and change too much, then it looks like you are panicking a wee bit,&quot; he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;We had some pretty honest conversations around the performance.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;It&#39;s a new game. The danger is you take what happened in the last game and bring it into this one.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;Our challenge is to pick ourselves up, brush ourselves off and make sure the next performance is something that we should be proud of.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The West Indies survived a scare of their own in their opening game, when they laboured to a five-wicket win over Papua New Guinea.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>They thrashed Uganda in their second Group C game.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Stead said New Zealand must subdue the West Indies&#39; hard-hitting batsmen.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;They&#39;re a team that can be unpredictable,&quot; he said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&quot;They have a lot of power through their batting order, they are boundary-hitters.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><b>Also Read: <\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/icc-cricket-t20-world-cup-2024-schedule-squads-venues\">T20WC 2024 Schedule & Squads<\/a><\/p><p>&quot;Our plans around how we nullify that will go a long way to how the game might play out.&quot;<\/p>\r\n",
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