: Almost felt we won’t cross the line again: Brendon McCullum hails New Zealand team for WTC triumph #IndiaNEWS Watching the ICC World Test Championship final with a nervous trepidation, former New

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Almost felt we won’t cross the line again: Brendon McCullum hails New Zealand team for WTC triumph #IndiaNEWS
Watching the ICC World Test Championship final with a nervous trepidation, former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum feared that the Blackcaps may yet again come close but would not win a world title.However, McCullum’s joy knew no bounds when Kane Williamson and Ross Taylor took New Zealand past the finish line to be crowned the first ever World Test Champions. New Zealand handed India an eight-wicket defeat in the rain-affected final to lift the inaugural WTC mace in Southampton on Wednesday.McCullum is thrilled that the side’s first world title has come in the traditional format.“They’ve been on a pretty amazing journey for the last few years and they’ve been so close to tasting the ultimate success,� McCullum told SEN Radio.“To do it in the purist form of the game is just something quite magnificent. I’m not sure it’s really sunk in just yet, to be honest. “Overnight the game was on a bit of a knife’s edge, but it almost had the feeling of the previous two World Cups that we’ll get close but we won’t quite get across the line,� he added.After bowling out India for 170 in the second innings, New Zealand cruised to the 139 target on the back of unbeaten knocks by skipper Williamson (52) and...Read more

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