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Ian Chadband

'Heart-breakers': NZ desperate to flip World Cup script

New Zealand's cricket men have had more than their fair share of ending up crestfallen after falling short in World Cup finals, so now captain Mitch Santner fancies it's time to see them "break a few hearts" for once.

Actually, when he says "a few", he's probably talking about a billion hearts as his unsung but invariably excellent side attempt to confound all the odds in Sunday's T20 World Cup final against co-hosts India in front of 100,000-plus fans at Ahmedabad's Narendra Modi Stadium.

And Santner knows only too well it can be done, as Pat Cummins' Australia showed everyone the way when they shut out the noise and spoiled the party, hammering India by six wickets in the 50-over World Cup final in the same arena two-and-a-half years ago.   

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