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IND vs NZ: ‘The Match Would have Turned in such a way’, Mitchell Santner Revealed After India’s Defeat

Sudev Haldar
2 years ago

Indian batsman Suryakumar Yadav (26) and skipper Hardik Pandya (15) kept their composure to give India a six-wicket win with one ball to spare. Mitchell Santner Revealed After India’s Defeat. With this, Team India made the series of three T20 International matches 1-1. Remember that India had to face a 21-run defeat in the first T20 International match played in Ranchi.

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Mitchell Santner said after the second T20 International match, ‘It was a great match. The bowlers put in a brilliant effort to make this match very close. If we had 10 or 15 more runs in our score, the result could have been different. Surya and Hardik’s calmness brought victory to India. We bowled 16 or 17 overs of spin, which was a very different experience. The kind of bounce that present on the pitch made this wicket very challenging. You didn’t know what would be a good score here. Even 120 would probably have been a match-winning target here. Rotation probably made the difference.

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Captain Mitchell Santner (19) was the Best Scorer of the Kiwi team

Please tell that New Zealand chose to bat first and scored 99 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. The Indian spinners dominated the Kiwi batsmen throughout and scoring runs was very difficult against them. Captain Mitchell Santner (19) was the best scorer of the Kiwi team. After this, the batsmen of the Indian team were also seen struggling, but the player of the match Suryakumar Yadav fought fort at one end and gave the victory to the host team.

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The third and final T20 International match will now be played between India and New Zealand at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Wednesday. Whichever team will win this match between India and New Zealand, the series will be in its name. Earlier, a three-match ODI series was played between the two teams, where India made a clean sweep of New Zealand 3-0.