winning the test at trent bridge and our first series win there in nearly 20 years we were not thinking about the rankings that win was just a culmination of some good planning and a lot of hard work the victory like the one against pakistan in pakistan the one at adelaide they all helped us demolish a few inner demons from poor travellers we became one of the strongest test sidespersonally ive been happy to play under different captains sourav rahul kumble and now dhoni theyve all contributed a lot to my success they all gave me freedom as a bowler the little things that id ask of them like the kind of field that i wanted in all it has been a fantastic learning experience the aim now is to keep this momentum goinghamilton added to spin aura with question marks over his overseas show harbhajan rose to the task at hamilton on an unhelpful track his remarkable 663 in the second innings fashioned indias first test win in new zealand a 10wicket romp in 33 years and set up a series victory which had been 41 long years in the making harbhajan singh talked to ajay naidu on india vs new zealand 1st test march 2009the hamilton victory is very dear to me ive always dreamt of helping the country win on foreign soil away from the turning tracks at home i feel bad when people say our spinners dont do well abroad i wanted to prove them wrong so it was great to rise to the occasion and perform well enough to win a test matchthe entire team was delirious as in the end it turned out to be a fairly comfortable victory i had bowled well in the first innings but was not lucky enough to get many wickets in fact i managed only one 157 off 22 overs and was disappointed in the second innings everything fell in place i found my rhythm quickly and picked up six delightful wickets in new zealand as you know only seamers are used to getting such big haulsi had been to new zealand twice before but we never managed to win a test i thought it was unfair that we were always made to play on green wet pitches we do expect green tops abroad but here the wickets are something else invariably it used to be a lottery matches would finish in two or three days and the batsmen barely had a chanceso this time we were hoping that we would get pitches that would last five full days i guess now that we have a good pace attack the home teams are wary of green tops themselves and we do have batsmen who can handle any kind of attack on any kind of wicket in this match laxman and dravid also took some remarkable closein catches we dismissed nz for just 279 runs in the first innings and then sachin scored a brilliant 160