New Zealand all-rounder Mitchell Santner took a stunning diving catch to send back the Indian skipper, Virat Kohli during the fourth T20I of the five-match series at the Westpac Stadium in Wellington on Friday. In the third ball of the fifth over of Hamish Bennette in first innings, Kohli got a leading edge and Santner, who was standing at cover, charged in and then flew towards his right to hang on to a brilliant catch.
Kohli had hit two boundaries in the first two balls of the over but just like the previous match in Hamilton, Bennett made a strong comeback and got the wicket of Kohli for 11 off 9 balls.
Here is the video of the dismissal:
Flying Santner #INDvNZ #INDvsNZt20 #ViratKohli #Virat #IndiaVSNewZEaland #Cricket #cricbuzzlive
Nice way to dismiss a world class batsman.#hamishbennet pic.twitter.com/HRK9mpHMA6— Rahul Haridas (@rahultron24) January 31, 2020
This is not the first time Santner has taken a flying catch. He had taken an even better diving catch in a Test match against England in November last year to dismiss Ollie Pope. Earlier, New Zealand, who were missing the services of a regular skipper, Kane Williamson because of a shoulder injury, and Tim Southee was leading the team and he decided to field first after winning the toss.
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New Zealand made two changes, with Daryl Mitchell replacing Williamson and Tom Bruce coming in for Colin de Grandhomme. India made three changes, although captain Virat Kohli insisted a clean sweep of the five-match series remained their target. Sanju Samson, Washington Sundar, and Navdeep Saini came in for Rohit Sharma, Mohammed Shami and Ravindra Jadeja.
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India is already having an unassailable 3-0 lead in the series. However, most of the Indian batsmen failed in Wellington as they were down to 88/6 after the first 12 overs and then Manish Oandye made sure that the men in blue reach a respectable total of 165/6 in their quota of 20 overs. He stitched a partnership of 43 runs with Shardul Tahlur for the 7th wicket.
