New Zealand's man of the match in their record-breaking Test win over Zimbabwe in Napier, Chris Martin could not remember a Test match like it in his 12-year career.
The win was completed within three days by bowling the tourists out twice in a day as they attempted to answer New Zealand's 495-7 which saw Martin claim eight wickets for 31 runs, including an innings best of 6-26, and which saw him join Chris Cairns in third place on the all-time list of New Zealand Test bowlers with 218 wickets.
Bowling a team out twice in a day was something that happened 'very rarely', especially on the Napier pitch, so that was something to savour.
Martin said the four-pronged New Zealand pace attack was a factor in the wind. Each of the bowlers did something a little different, they were all hungry, they didn't get over-bowled so there was a little bit of venom in every spell.
"I think the competitive nature, seeing there is four of us, we're all there trying to give our best for our captain and our team," he said.
Martin felt the New Zealand bowlers were able to get more from the pitch by hitting the ball into it harder while they were also helped by the pitch quickening up as the game went on.
"I am definitely more of a bounce bowler so I enjoyed the bounce and pace in it and Dougie [Bracewell] just swings the ball very nicely to right-handers and is always going to be a threat. And the boys chipping in I think Boulty [Trent] and Timmy [Southee] were hungry and definitely wanted the ball the whole day so we're all competing for it and it is nice to have a win from that kind of comepetitiveness within the bowling ranks," he said.
Martin was disappointed with the Zimbabwe batting. He said teams could have one bad innings but you would expect them to come out and give a little more the next time around.
"I suppose we did start well each time and there were flutters throughout the [Zimbabwe] changing room each time when three down for under 10, that kind of thing which from experience puts the shock wave through any side," he said.
"They didn't really recover from there."
The line the bowlers were working to on off-stump forced the batsmen to play balls they might not want to and when backed by catching of the quality New Zealand produced made life difficult.
"I don't think I've ever seen a better catch than the one Dean Brownlie took today [to dismiss the side's best batsman Regis Chakabva]."
All of those skills would need to be achieved over longer periods of time against a quality side like South Africa but having built on the same approach when beating Australia in Hobart, augured well for New Zealand's future, he said.
Martin said some alterations to his run-up had changed the results in his bowling, he is able to swing the ball more often, while he admitted having genuine wicket-taking bowlers around him had reinvigorated his game.
"I don't really have to go searching, or trying as hard as I used to and the spells aren't as long and neither are the days in the park thus far," he said.