kolkata describing india as one of the toughest places for batting new zealand opener tom latham on thursday said they have to go back to doing the cliched things and rectify their mistakes quickly to save the threematch test seriesits very difficult to start your innings here nothing really changes too much you need to do all the cliched things you need to start off an innings we have to adapt quicklyi dont think we were too far away in the first test if we were able to do that with bat and ball we will have a good chance the lefthanded opener told reporters on the eve of the second test beginning on fridaythe same rule applies while bowling and latham said they would look to get early breakthroughsstarting on these sorts of surfaces is the toughest thing if we can apply pressure to the new batsmen in the first 1020 balls then we will give ourselves some good chance we have to keep doing it for longerlatham said the energysapping hot and humid conditions make things difficult in the middlethe longer you bat the harder it gets you have to keep yourself hydrated our 12th man last time did a fantastic job running around with the drinksthe visitors squandered their chances after bowling out india for 318 as they conceded a 68run lead before going down by 197 runs in the first test in kanpurwe played some good cricket in the first couple of days we probably had the upperhand on day three but managed to slip away from there we just did not do things for long enough and india exploited us really welllatham was dismissed by ravichandran ashwin in both the innings as the offspinner returned with a matchhaul of 10 wickets to set up the victoryhes a world class bowler which he showed in the last game he has got some subtle natural variations hopefully we can pick up on them a little bit quicker im looking forward to go into training and trying to rectify thatmartin guptill may be out of form but latham backed his senior opening partner to be back among runs at eden gardenshe has not scored the amount of runs he would have liked we are extremely hard at the nets trying to rectify that he showed a lot of intent in the first innings and got off to a good start if he gets going then you never know we are all working hard to perform for the teamindian test skipper virat kohli had earlier said they were open to use decision review system and latham too said it would be good for the gamewe have had that back home in the past its a good system it helps in getting rid of that wrong decision some major decisions are called correctly certainly we enjoy this back home it will be great if thats the case