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I can picture a baby-faced Hesson saying: "We don't care. You have to win one more game and we haven't lost one yet."
No one has broken the Blacks Caps' stride and the nation's heightened expectations of lifting the cup is justified.
The gospel, according to Hesson and captain Brendon McCullum, is working even with newbie Matt Henry.
Will those edicts work in a different land (Australia) and within the foreign parameters of a yawning MCG?
The Black Caps have done remarkably well to run through the gauntlet of bantam home-grown venues in Twenty20-like atmosphere.
The MCG will demand a different kind of pressure against Australia or India.
Hesson and his men will occupy the front-row of the lecture theatre of cricket today when "favourites" Australia host India at the SCG.
But the defending champions from the subcontinent aren't only undefeated but also have bowled out every opponent.
The Blacks Caps, no doubt, will meticulously make mental notes. Rest? Sure, the New Zealanders thoroughly deserve one but the astute will tell you the mind never sleeps.
The lottery stage is well and truly over. The final is all about the thinkers.
Threading the ball past the dynamic web of fielders will be the order of the day, not hand-eye co-ordination, even though McCullum will play the aggressive card.
Singles, twos and threes will be the currency this time, not fours and sixes. Thinking clearly under duress will be paramount, as little things can play on the mind sometimes.
How else can one explain the fallibility of cricketers in Tuesday's semifinal at Eden Park?
Blokes, who have engaged in repetitive drills in the nets since they were little nippers, can, in the blink of an eye, become a bumbling, stumbling and incoherent mess.
Stress, it's called - when the mind overrides the body's basic desire to do just about anything.
Frighteningly it can happen to anyone, even the best.
Proteas skipper AB de Villiers was a classic example.
As adroit as he is, De Villiers lost the ball in trying to run out Corey Anderson.
Instead, he couldn't help himself and rattled the furniture with his hand but, more importantly, when he re-gathered the ball, didn't have the presence of mind to quickly uproot the stump.
Case example two: What was JP Duminy thinking when he ran into Farhaan Behardien under the high ball?
Schoolboy stuff, actually, when contemplating traffic in the field placements.
The person facing the ball has the right of way, over the fielder turning around or running from any other direction, to take a catch.
Did Behardien call? In the din of the 40,000 spectators would anyone have heard it?
The South Africans' line up has to come under scrutiny and De Villiers' rotation of bowlers, especially game-breaking Imran Tahir.
Strike bowler Dale Steyn didn't fire and rushing back Vernon Philander was a mistake. Kyle Abbott and Behardien should have started and De Villiers should have slipped on the wicketkeeper's gloves.
With two balls left in the game, the Black Caps thinkers came into play.
Elliott and Daniel Vettori brainstormed to concur the six hitter had to be on strike as wicketkeeper Quinton de Kock seemed out at sea in anticipation of Steyn's fast delivery.
Did De Kock and Steyn discuss the groundwork for the latter's match-defining ball before the wicketkeeper took his position so far back to negate a regulation runout?
But it seems unfair to single out anyone for blame in what is up there with the Eden Park victory over the stunned Ockers in pool play.
What is it about the Proteas, rain and the Duckworth-Lewis Method?
They can be excused for pulling out the "controlling-the-controllables" card.
The tag of chokers seems harsh but that's the rules of engagement and the media will use it again.
In two balls, Faf du Plessis could easily have been the hero for taking the catch that dismissed Corey Anderson, leaving the Black Caps inconsolable.
You see, both sides had blunders but the rainbow pointed the Kiwis closer to the pot of gold.
This Black Caps have now usurped the mantle of the greatest New Zealand cricket team from the 1992 one by virtue of making it to the final.
Elliott's elevation and composure also come on the foundation of keeping it simple.
He doesn't feature on top runs/wickets or MVP rankings and, ironically, didn't feature in many people's cull post-cup.
The "level" Wellingtonian, who would probably never have made the Proteas squad in a country that has a reservoir of talent, didn't have any individual agendas for his adopted country on Tuesday.
Elliott was blissfully mindful he was a six or four away from carrying the weight of a nation or dropping to his knees apologetically.
Fans and the media invariably want a hero but Elliott will argue he was simply a cog in a wheel, just as McCullum, Vettori, Trent Boult and Martin Guptill were.
