An injury to doubles player Dan Shirley compounded the New Zealand badminton team's misery as they lost 5-0 to Indonesia at the Thomas Cup world teams championships in Sendai, Japan, yesterday.
It was the team's second 5-0 whitewash from two matches after the opening-day loss to Korea.
Shirley suffered agroin injury during their doubles match against Candra Wijaya and Sigit Budiartoafter, forcing he and Craig Cooper to default after losing the first set 21-18.
New Zealand lost all their matches in straight sets.
World no 33 John Moody pushed no 12 Taufik Hidayat to 19-21, 15-21 while newcomer Henry Tam, ranked outside the top-200, lost to no 20 Soni Dwi Kuncoro 10-21, 1-21.
