Mitchell Santner is cool enough to beat New Zealand 131-6 in the 350 Chase in Hyderabad. He is so cool when he forces some reporters to greet the locals in a traditional way at a press conference in Raipur. , bowling cool against Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma.
Santner considers his cool approach, which often echoes his Super Kings captain MS Dhoni and coach Stephen Fleming in Chennai, to be one of his strengths as a leader. Santner will take charge of the New Zealand T20I team in India while Kane Williamson and Tim Southey are resting ahead of his February home test against England. Through Friday’s game, Santner leads New Zealand with 10 T20Is.
“Yeah, I think being cool is in my nature and has been for a while,” Santner said on the eve of the first T20I at lunch. It’s very exciting to be directing another series in .It couldn’t be better.So I’m definitely looking forward to it.
“When I look at both MS Dhoni and Stephen Fleming, they are very calm, they are very cool, and I like them. It was a wonderful experience for the year. I think it would be nice to go home [for lunch]. Flem is the same, very cool, very laid back and that’s what he’s trying to do with this [New Zealand] line-up.