Team India had to face defeat by 113 runs in the second match of the three-match Test series against New Zealand. With this, the Indian team has lost the Test series at home after 12 years. Team India’s performance in this series so far has been a complete flop, neither the batsmen have been able to perform anything special nor the bowlers have proved to be match winners. With this, Team India’s streak of continuously winning Test series in India has also been broken. India has lost at home after 18 test series. With this big defeat, Indian captain Rohit Sharma held a press conference and explained the reason for losing the match.
Rohit’s big statement after losing the series
Team India had to face defeat by 8 wickets in the first match of this series. In such a situation, the Indian team had made a spin friendly pitch for the second match. But here also he got defeated. This match could last only for 3 days. In such a situation, Rohit Sharma gave a big statement in the press conference and explained the reasons for the defeat. He spoke openly about the team’s poor batting. Somewhere he blamed the batsmen for the defeat in this match.
What did Rohit Sharma say in the press conference?
Rohit Sharma said in the press conference, ‘The pitch was not bad in this match, we batted poorly because we did not even reach their score in the first innings and the batsmen understand that they have made mistakes. Wickets fell continuously and it was clear that the match was slipping away. We failed to face the pressure. We always knew that whatever the target would be, it would be challenging because the pitch started changing.
However, Rohit Sharma also defended the batsmen. Rohit further said, ‘This is our failure as an entire team. This was a collective failure of both batting and bowling. When we win, everyone gets praise for it, so when we lose, everyone should take the blame. This is the first time that our batting has collapsed like this. This is allowed once in 12 years. If this had been happening continuously, we would not have had this consecutive winning streak. I think when we play at home the expectations are higher.
Indian batsmen did not bat
Batting first in this match, the New Zealand team had to score 259 runs. In response, the Indian team was bundled out for 156 runs in its first innings. After this, New Zealand scored 255 runs in the second innings and gave a target of 359 runs to Team India to win. But the Indian batsmen once again flopped and could score only 245 runs, due to which Team India had to face defeat by 113 runs.
