losing to Australia<\/a>, and have never won a white-ball World Cup.<\/p>\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t mind winning a trophy,\u201d Santner said.<\/p>\n
He added: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be obviously a challenge where everyone knows we\u2019re probably not the favourites.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut yeah, I wouldn\u2019t mind breaking a few hearts to lift the trophy for once.\u201d<\/p>\n
New Zealand have blown hot and cold.<\/p>\n
They hammered South Africa \u2013 unbeaten until then \u2013 by nine wickets in the semi-finals after Finn Allen blasted the fastest-ever century at the tournament.<\/p>\n
But they also lost to South Africa and England earlier in the competition.<\/p>\n
They face an India side on a roll with three straight wins.<\/p>\n
In 2023, Australia, led by Pat Cummins, silenced the home crowd in Ahmedabad in the final of the ODI World Cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess that\u2019s the goal, is to silence the crowd,\u201d said Santner.<\/p>\n
\u201cT20 cricket is fickle at times. We\u2019ve seen South Africa playing very good cricket all the way through and then had a little hiccup against us and out.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think for us, it\u2019s taking confidence from that and if we go about our business the same way, we can upset another big team.\u201d<\/p>\n
Top-ranked India are attempting to become the first team to win back-to-back T20 World Cups and the first to lift the trophy on home soil.<\/p>\n
They would also be the first to win the title three times.<\/p>\n
But they will have to withstand the expectations of a packed house plus hundreds of millions more watching on TV.<\/p>\n
Santner feels that level of expectation could weigh heavily on them.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I think that comes with a lot of added pressure as well,\u201d said Santner. \u201cSo if we can go out there and try and put, I guess, that added pressure on them and see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
– With AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMitch and the Black Caps\u201d. Talking to media ahead of tomorrow\u2019s final, Santner said they will \u201cnot mind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23562,9092,3017,7022,42574,13381,10542,5346,9517,5904,1668,1345,2344,6096,5430,111,139,69,1118,31705,96638,172284,213,1886,2846,61,51183,49118,377,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-318383","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-23562","9":"tag-against","10":"tag-ahead","11":"tag-black","12":"tag-caps","13":"tag-captain","14":"tag-cup","15":"tag-expected","16":"tag-fans","17":"tag-final","18":"tag-front","19":"tag-home","20":"tag-india","21":"tag-message","22":"tag-mitchell","23":"tag-new-zealand","24":"tag-newzealand","25":"tag-nz","26":"tag-of","27":"tag-penned","28":"tag-santner","29":"tag-santners","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-support","32":"tag-them","33":"tag-to","34":"tag-tomorrows","35":"tag-twenty20","36":"tag-world","37":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}