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Scott Borthwick hopes a winter in New Zealand will prove beneficial as he looks forward to the start of Durhams season.Borthwick, who came through the ranks predominately as a leg-spinner, was Durhams batting star in 2015 when he piled up 1,286 runs in 16 matches at a healthy average of 42.87.But the 25-year-old is keen to improve his bowling, which led to an England Test call-up at the end of the Ashes series in Australia in early 2014, and hopes changes in playing conditions this season will be a benefit to him, as well as other slow bowlers. It was fantastic to have a full winter in New Zealand, playing for Wellington, Borthwick told Sky Sports News HQ ahead of Sundays Division One opener at home to Somerset.The idea was to go over and work with Jeetan Patel, which was fantastic as he is a top bowler, but I managed to get into their four-day team and it was fantastic to get some runs and a few wickets as well.Ever since I have come into the Durham side weve been successful. Im not saying thats my fault but the last few years weve won three titles, and thats been fantastic. Hopefully that can continue this season.Midway through 2013 I got the chance to bat at No 3. It was always my goal to move up but maybe from eight to three was a bigger step than I wanted. But Ive really enjoyed it and its nice to be in the team as a batter as well as a bowler. Borthwick wants to improve on his 15 first-class wickets from 2015 Among the changes in the County Championship this summer is the scrapping of the mandatory coin toss, designed to encourage the curation of better pitches.And Borthwick hopes the move, which will see visiting captains offered the chance to bowl first, will be advantageous to spin bowlers after he only bowled 149.1 overs in 2015, taking 15 wickets.He added: This time of the season its quite tough, with your fingers feeling a bit chilly. Adil Rashid and Moeen Ali bowled well in the World Twenty20, so hopefully its promising - theres quite a few spinners around now so hopefully we can take a few wickets.Later on in the summer when teams are batting first, hopefully well get some dry wickets and I can come into my own at the end of games, bowling some 20 or 30 over spells I am not very used to here. If we do tend to bat first here then I might have a chance to bowl in the second innings. Ben Stokes was inconsolable after Englands World Twenty20 final defeat Borthwick will be back playing alongside Ben Stokes when the all-rounder makes his domestic return - expected to be against Middlesex on April 24 - and he is backing his team-mate to recover from a heartbreaking finish to the World Twenty20 in India.Stokes was left in tears after giving up four successive sixes to Carlos Brathwaite in Englands six-wicket defeat against the West Indies in Sundays final.Obviously he was massively down the other night, but knowing Ben, his character and his mental skills, hell bounce back from that, he said.I dont think it will bother Stokesy too much. Hes a fantastic cricketer and hell be itching to get back playing for us, and England as well. Hell want to put that behind him, and hes definitely got the character and skills to do it.Also See:County Ins and OutsEngland stars to featureMonty glad to be homeBayliss backing StokesSwell Bottle Schweiz . 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LeBrun: Over the last 48 hours, hes taken in the home-and-home between the Dallas Stars and Colorado Avalanche with Jamie Benn and Matt Duchene being the obvious targets.A few minutes after he was elected president of the International Hockey Federation in Dubai, Narinder Batra adopted a conciliatory tone towards hockey ties with Pakistan. Speaking to reporters soon after he became the first Indian to head the world body of any Olympic sport, Batra said he expected both India and Pakistan to honour their international commitments.India and Pakistan have political compulsions. These are political issues. When they start when they stop, no one has any idea. But you cant refuse international commitments, he said. India will have to play and Pakistan will have to play. If either India or Pakistan tries to ignore, you will miss your bus to the Olympics. Its as simple as that.Batra, who said his mandate at the FIH was to increase revenues and grow the sport, was not averse to the idea of India and Pakistan playing home and away matches. With international teams still wary of touring Pakistan, he even floated the idea of neutral venues.?India (versus) Pakistan has always been high intensity games (with) good viewership. Home and away will be a good addition to that. And Im a strong supporter of home and away matches, he said.If there are political reasons you cant go to Pakistan, you can look at a neutral venue. If there are restrictions, Pakistan has to select where they want to play and FIH has to approve.The atmosphere of goodwill was absent when Batra was Hockey India chief. Not too long ago, you could always count on Batra to be vocal in his opposition to India-Pakistan sporting ties. India and Pakistan have been playing each other, but only in international tournaments - most recently the Asian Champions Trophy.Sporting ties between the two countries have always blown hot and cold. The most recent trigger for the chill was celebrations by members of the Pakistan squad following their win over India at the 2014 Champioons Trophy in Bhubaneshwar.dddddddddddd. India found the celebrations crude, and when Batra asked Pakistan to apologise, they refused to oblige.?As a result, a bilateral series between the two countries, scheduled to be held later that year in Dhaka, was called off. Pakistan players were also blacklisted from the Hockey India League, the richest of its sport in the world.When the BCCI made tentative attempts to restore cricketing ties in 2015, again at a neutral venue - Sri Lanka - Batra slammed the body. He said the BCCI had chosen monetary gains over public sentiment across the country.It is all about money (that BCCI wants to play Pakistan) but in times like these you have to rise above monetary gains, he had said. Batra also scrapped the MoU signed between the hockey federations of the two countries that dated back to 2012.Batra would reiterate his stance that the Indian hockey team would not play Pakistan in a bilateral series until relations between the two countries improved, and until the Pakistan Hockey Federation apologised for its players behaviour during the 2014 Champions Trophy.The secretary of the Pakistan Hockey Federation even stated in January this year that Batra had skipped the meeting of the Asian Hockey Federation, of which he was then the vice president.While Pakistan are yet to apologise for the events at the Kalinga Stadium two years ago,?Batra said he had spoken to the Pakistan Hockey Federations representative in Dubai a day before the election when he was still Hockey India chief, and that all issues were resolved.?We met with the PHF and all old issues have been resolved. Whatever issues happened at the Champions trophy have been resolved. Those issues about bilateral (ties) are over, he saidved.?We met with the PHF and all old issues ' ' '