We are unfortunate that Sanju Samson saved his best for T20 World Cup: Santner

Here are the excerpts from Mitchell Santner's press conference after the T20 World Cup final.

[Reporter:]

Do you think that electing to field first which on a wicket which looked very good for batting Was a mistake or was it influenced by many other factors?

[Mitch Santner:]

I guess you can look in hindsight. But I think It was a pretty good wicket throughout. There wasn't much for, I guess, the bowlers. The cutters weren't really holding, not much spin. So I think either way you look at it, I think if we could have got a couple in the power play, squeeze them a little bit through the middle, 220 could have been chased down on a very good wicket. But I think credit to Sanju and Abhishek at the top to get 90 I think off the power play. It's pretty tough from there.

[Reporter:]

Mitch, what was the plan in the powerplay because it seemed like your focus was going wide and hiding the ball out of the hitters reach. What was the plan that you guys fixed for the powerplay? Because you mentioned playing against India, not losing the powerplay was really huge in the pre-match.

[Mitch Santner:]

Yeah I think there wasn't a lot of seam or swing to start so I think the bowlers are trying to do what they can to get out of the hitting arc. We know how good both Sanju, Abhishek, Kishan are at hitting all over the wicket. I think whichever way you look at it, there's no perfect plan when guys are going. I think it is hard to stop when guys are going like that. So whether it was a few more yorkers or closing out balls, I think we tried the wide stuff. And then we tried the two on the leg side. So we tried everything. But yeah, I think credit has to go to the way they set that power play up and then from there you can go pretty hard and to get a good score like they