HYDERABAD: Mitchell Santner turned in another match-winning performance for New Zealand to take them atop the points table with a 99-run win over Netherlands at the RGIC Stadium, here on Monday night. The left-arm spinner is also on top of the bowling charts – in the two matches he bagged seven wickets with a five-wicket haul against Netherlands. This, incidentally, is the first five-wicket haul at this ground in ODI cricket.
However, the Kiwi is not too happy with his show. “Yeah, it was obviously nice to get the rewards. I don't think I bowled as well as I did in Ahmedabad. Probably missed a little bit more, but it was nice to keep trying to be aggressive and get wickets. I guess that's the only way we can kind of slow the batters down in the middle of the ODI innings - to take wickets. And I thought, as a bowling unit, we did that very well. Guys coming back, still being aggressive, trying to take wickets, and managed to chip them out along the way. And it was nice to get the win in the end,” Santner said.
