Nagpur, Nov 21: New Zealand paceman Tim Southee on Sunday said that his team was hopeful of bouncing back in the match and while bowling to Sachin Tendulkar one can’t be predictable.

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On New Zealand being pushed on the backfoot:

Obviouisly, we didn’t score many runs in the first innings and they have a great partnership going now. Hopefully, we can pick early wickets tomorrow and fight our way back into it.

On Virender Sehwag:

We know that Sehwag was going to bat like that. He has got off to a good start in every game. We have our plans right but we need to execute it better right from the start.

On bouncing Sachin:

You can’t be predictable, you just have to mix it up ...and it was more that than anything else. Just mix it up

On his second spell:

I had a better rhythm in that second spell and it just sort of went from there and I tried to bowl wicket to wicket. I got in a couple of good overs.

On his batting:

I just wanted to hang around with Brendon [McCullum] and after he got out I just went for my shots and managed to connect with a couple for a change.