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New Zealand T20I skipper Mitchell Santner said his squad was not stressing connected its triumph against India successful the ODIs, and that the eventual nonsubjective of the five-match T20I bid was to look astatine the “bigger picture” and “have a bully signifier starring into the World Cup”.
“I conjecture we’ve had immoderate caller occurrence [in India] successful antithetic formats. For us, [this series] is astir playing a large squad successful akin conditions to what we’re going to person successful the World Cup,” Santner said astatine the VCA Stadium connected Tuesday (January 20, 2026), connected the eve of the archetypal T20I.
The Kiwi skipper understands that the Men successful Blue deterioration a antithetic look successful T20Is, and wouldn’t beryllium perturbed by what transpired successful the ODIs. “The results successful the ODI bid were good, but T20 is simply a antithetic bid against a antithetic team.”
“Obviously, we’re trying to find the squad that we privation to enactment retired connected the park. We conscionable privation the guys to beryllium performing and fresh. So, archetypal things first, you privation to triumph the series, nary doubt. Every clip you play for New Zealand, you privation to win. So that’s astatine the forefront of our minds. But the bigger representation astatine the extremity of the bid is the World Cup,” Santner emphasised.
