Like beating Australia in a test.
It has been three decades since New Zealand last beat Australia in a test on home soil.
The Black Caps had that rogue win on a sticky wicket in Hobart in 2011, but the last win in New Zealand was in 1993, at Eden Park.
Hard to believe they won that game when you read through the team list.
Australia had the likes of Shane Warne, Steve Waugh and Allan Border.
New Zealand’s lineup included Murphy Su’a, Chris Harris and Willie Watson.
It did not seem like a fair fight.
But the Kiwis had an unsung hero warming up his tonsils.
Offspinner Dipak Patel, better known for his efforts in opening the bowling during the 1992 World Cup, claimed a five-wicket bag in the second innings to help set up a five-wicket win.
He picked up the wickets of Mark Taylor, Justin Langer, Damien Martyn, Waugh and Ian Healy.
It was quite a day for the now 64-year-old.
He knew it was a monumental achievement at the time and the team enjoyed a celebration to match the accomplishment.
But no-one thought the win would stand the test of quite so much time.
Australia are back this season and the Black Caps will have another shot at upsetting their nemesis.
They will need belief to win. And in Patel’s opinion, that has been the magic missing ingredient.
"I honestly put it down to belief. Do we really believe we can beat them, and I’m being pretty frank here, because you’ve got to be honest with yourselves," Patel said when asked why Australia has proved so impossible to beat.
"We planned really well when we beat them at Eden Park. It wasn’t a sort of a fluke because we fought our way back into the series with a draw in Wellington.
"We were never in front in that game [in the capital], but we drew a lot out of it. And we genuinely had great belief that we could beat them.
"But I really do question, over the years, how often do we go in with that belief? Did we really believe we could beat them in the World Cup final [in 2015], for example?
"It is always more difficult in test matches because it is a longer game and they’ve certainly had the wood over us for a long time.
"But you do have to plan meticulously well and make sure you’ve got every aspect of your game covered."
Man-for-man the 1993 New Zealand team was over-matched. They had Martin Crowe and Andrew Jones who were world-class, and Ken Rutherford batted well in the test.
Danny Morrison took six wickets in the first innings and was a quality player on his day. But the bowling attack was best characterised as a dibbly dobblers.
Harris was the fifth bowling option, which is damning evidence the bowling was further towards the feeble end of the spectrum at test level.
The fact they took 20 wickets to win the test really adds salt to Patel’s assertion it was all about belief supported by some very solid planning.
Arguably, that is what went wrong when the Black Caps toured Australia in 2019-20.
They had not prepared well enough and that helped nourish some doubt.
Trent Boult was missing for the first test — a day-nighter in Perth — and his replacement Lockie Ferguson broke down after 11 overs.
That was bad luck, but the 3-0 drubbing rankled with Black Caps fans who genuinely felt that was their best chance of witnessing a test series win in Australia since Richard Hadlee and Crowe towed the team to glory in 1985.
"Man-for-man you don’t necessarily have to be better than them," Patel said.
"But you have to have the belief that you can score runs and, most importantly, take 20 wickets. But taking 20 wickets in a test is easier said than done."
