India vs New Zealand: Mitchell Santner wanting to make use of learnings from MS Dhoni in 1st T20I at Ranchi

India vs New Zealand: Mitchell Santner is ready to steer the Kiwi facet within the three-match T20I collection. The spinner talks about captaincy and who he’s drawing inspiration from.

Ranchi,UPDATED: Jan 26, 2023 23:34 IST

Mitchell Santner might be main the New Zealand facet in T20Is vs India. (AP Photo)

By India Today Web Desk: Mitchell Santner hopes to make use of learnings from MS Dhoni and Stephen Fleming as he prepares to captain New Zealand towards India within the T20I collection. Santner who has been a campaigner within the Chennai Super Kings facet spoke in regards to the expertise of taking part in within the firm of legends and known as it a very cool expertise.

“If you look at both of them (Dhoni and Fleming), they’re both very calm and very level-headed, which I like as I feel I’m similar in that respect. To work under and alongside MS (Dhoni) has been a pretty cool experience for a few years now,” Santner mentioned forward of the first T20I at Ranchi.

India vs New Zealand, 1st T20I: Preview

“I guess it’s nice to be back at his home ground as well. And Flem (Fleming) — he’s the same, very level-headed and keeps it pretty relaxed and that’s what we try to do in this set-up as well,” mentioned the left-hander forward of the collection opener.

New Zealand had been slammed within the ODI collection by Rohit Sharma’s facet, nonetheless, Santner mentioned that he might be wanting to make use of the learnings from the just lately concluded collection.

“I guess trying to bank those experiences from that series…yes, we obviously lost 3-0, but we showed glimpses in games that we want to take forward in this series,” mentioned the all-rounder.

— ENDS —

Edited By:

Kingshuk Kusari

Published On:

Jan 26, 2023