The home Test match against New Zealand was nothing less than a nightmare for the Indian team, who had to suffer a sweep in the series after performing very poorly in all three matches. This was the first time that India suffered such a heavy defeat at home in three or more Test matches. In the final match of this Test series in Mumbai, India had a target of 147 in the fourth innings but the team was restricted to 121. After the series defeat, India captain Rohit Sharma showed clear disappointment on his face and said the defeat will not be digested easily.
We didn’t perform well at all as a team
At the presentation ceremony held after the Mumbai Test loss to New Zealand, Rohit Sharma, while responding to a question about India’s performance in the series, said, “We all know that losing a Test match or a series Racing is never easy. This defeat is not easy to digest. We also didn’t perform as expected in this game and we have to accept our mistakes. New Zealand played much better than us but we made a lot of mistakes. In the first two Test matches, we played poorly in the first inning and fell behind. In this Test match, we took a slight lead in the first inning and it felt like we were ahead. This goal should have been achieved, but we must perform better.
I’m disappointed that I didn’t perform better with the bat
The Test series against New Zealand was very bad for India captain Rohit Sharma as a batsman and regarding this he also said in a statement that you also want runs on the board and this is My thought is that when you plan if you don’t hit the ball accordingly then you feel bad and that’s what happened to me and it was very disappointing. Pant and Gill showed with their batting how to bat on a pitch like this. We’ve been playing on pitches like this for the last three or four years and we know how to play, but in this series we haven’t been able to do that at all. Our team did not perform well in this series, which was also the biggest reason for the loss.
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