Who Said What? What did Suryakumar Yadav, Mitchell Santner & Tim Seifert say after INDvNZ, 4th T20I?

India suffered a 50-run defeat to New Zealand in the fourth T20I at the ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam on Wednesday, January 29.

In the fourth T20I, New Zealand batted after losing the toss. They managed to post an imposing total of 215/7 in 20 overs, courtesy of Devon Conway's 44 and Tim Seifert's 62. In the chase, India lost wickets at regular intervals as they got all out for 165 runs in 18.4 overs. Shivam Dube was the top batter with 65 runs in 23 balls with three fours and seven sixes. Mitchell Santner scalped a three-wicket haul for the visitors.

On that note, let’s take a look at who said what after India vs New Zealand, 4th T20I.

Indian captain, Suryakumar Yadav 

I feel we purposely played six batters today. We wanted to have five perfect bowlers and wanted to challenge ourselves. Like for example, if we're chasing 200 or 180, and we wanted to see if we were two down or three down, how does it look. But then it's fine at the end of the day. And we wanted to play all the players who are part of the World Cup squad. Otherwise, we would have played other ones. 

(On opting to bat second) We've been batting really well when we've batted first. So I wanted the guys to take that responsibility if we're chasing 180 or 200, and two wickets or three wickets are down and see how we bat. So it's a good challenge. Hopefully if we get an opportunity again in the next game, we might chase again. But at the end of the day, good learning. 

With the heavy dew, I think one or two partnerships here and there, like the way Dube batted, one batter with him would have made a lot of difference at the end of the game. We lost by 50 runs but it's okay. As I said, one or two partnerships like this in a run-chase like this might make a difference.

Player of the match, Tim Seifert 

(On the boundaries off top-edge at the start of his innings) Sometimes you get a bit lucky early on and yeah sometimes the nature of the game, but the intent that we wanted to put on the bowlers early, sometimes you get a couple of top-edges and they go for boundary early. 

Look, he (Bumrah) got me with a beauty last game, so sometimes you've got to tip your hat, but you've just got to make sure that you look to play straight in the right line and then once you get that first ball, I reckon with him, then it's a bit easier. 

(Bat differently today?) I wouldn't say a huge amount, to be honest. Sometimes you get some and others you don't. And that's the nature of T20 cricket, but the intent and putting pressure on the bowlers, that's the main thing that we want to do. 

No matter where we play, the next game and the World Cup, every wicket's going to be a bit different. So being able to adapt, but being true to yourself and putting pressure on the bowlers. I think if we look at the wickets, the pitches are going to be anything like this series, they're going to be high-scoring. So you've just got to keep that intent up.

New Zealand captain, Mitchell Santner

It was nice. Obviously, the way we started in the powerplay was kind of what India have been doing to us a little bit. And then to get to a decent score, but we knew that at least 200 is never safe against India. Especially after the last game, you get 150, you don’t want guys to go back into their shell. 

We can’t win the other way, which was nice. The way they took on the bowlers in the powerplay was outstanding and set us up for a decent score. There was a little period in the middle where we lost wickets, but I guess with a start like that, and then obviously finished off by Daryl and Foulkes a little bit, which was nice. 

We’re trying to think what we’re likely to get. Like I said at the start, there’s no better prep than playing India in India for a World Cup. So we’ve got a couple of guys back for the next game, which is nice. But again, it’s about getting our plans right, getting the roles sorted for what we’ve got coming up in the Cup. 

It looked like it was going to be flat and not spinning. I think it was a little bit tacky at the end, and on the seam it was spinning when you bowled slow. So I guess I don’t need a second invitation to bowl slow either. I think partnerships throughout, obviously wickets at the start are crucial, and it makes our job as spinners a little bit easier in the middle.

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