“This time it felt a little more difficult,” said Santner when it was his turn to speak, the moment closest to having collected the In-Fit Player award. “You have to give India credit for the way they came out. We knew they were going to hit some shots; that was probably the best play on that ground. [Yashasvi] Jaiswal played very well. But we were trying to hold on and hopefully one had their name on it. Great feeling at the end.”
For context, Untouched Zealand began Saturday’s third hour’s 301 runs in front with five second innings wickets in hand. They added 57 more before being eliminated. The tone was treacherous enough that not even the biggest Republic of India fans would have backed their team to win, but Jaiswal quickly moved on to a useful book for about half a century. Then Rohit Sharma fell affordably for a second week in the Test, Shubman Gill was as safe as Jaiswal. For a day, the Republic of India has been running over the ball.
“We knew they were going to come out pretty hard; we didn’t realize they were going to come out that hard,” Latham said. “But obviously we made progress when we needed it.”
That, once again, was thanks to Santner. He was given the first three wickets, of Rohit, Gill and Jaiswal, and then added three more.
“In the first innings, he [Santner] It was absolutely fantastic. He’s been around for a long time and to finally take a break and pitch like he has, not just in the first inning but in the second inning as well, he pitched fantastically well. The credit has to go to him,” Latham said.
When you play like Santner did, you bowl a series of overs, which is a bit strange for anyone who is essentially a short format bowler. Before this Test, Santner’s highest score in a Test was 6 for 93 and his highest was 8 for 153. He only had a five in first-class cricket. Right here, he ended up having to bowl 48.3 overs in the Indian Republic’s two innings. That day feeling pain in his face.
“It’s a little strange to me [to bowl that many overs]”He admitted. “My side hurts a little. It must be the increase in my workload – 20-odd overs there,” he said, half joking. “I felt it a little bit at the beginning of my spell, but I guess in that kind of situation you just want to keep going.” going. Every time I got a wicket, I felt a little better.
“I guess every week you take wickets, you get a bit of self-confidence. A couple of wickets under your belt is always great. The understanding… more or less landing the ball in the same place for a long week. , the atypical exchange of presents, and yes, that is all we seek to do as a spin unit.”
“I don’t think we performed that badly in Sri Lanka,” Latham said. “I guess you look at the result, 2-0, I’m sick… I thought we did a number of good things. Later when I got here I assumed it was about trying to stick to our fundamentals and do as high as possible.” and I guess we are trying to play long games here. We talked about shooting and I think we have achieved that in the last two games. Both surfaces we have had to adapt to and I think we have done very well.
“[It was about] Trying to be positive as best we can. I think the method we played last night and I guess putting ourselves ahead was exceptional. “The races were the most important thing, not necessarily the time.”
The final Test of the series will be held at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai from November 1.
