Published: Oct 26, 2024, 07:25 PM (IST)
Edited: Oct 26, 2024, 07:25 PM (IST)
According to Rohit Sharma, Indian team is focused on completing the series with a victory and not thinking of the World Test Championship (WTC) finals. New Zealand beat India by 113 runs, which has resulted in a historic series win on Indian grounds.
“It’s too early to think about WTC. I am hurting because we lost the game. I don’t want to think too much about too far. It’s a collective failure. If you lose a Test match, it’s about the entire unit that has to take the blame,” Rohit said in the post-match press conference.
“If you bat for three days, you’ll win a Test match. The idea was to try to get to the score. When the pitch is doing what it is doing, then you’ll have to look for runs, put bowlers under pressure. It didn’t work for us but it worked for NZ. I thought there was a good chance of us winning this Test. By no means, I’ll go into the mindset to draw a Test first rather than winning it,” he added.
This defeat marked India’s first Test series defeat against New Zealand at home grounds. Indian team was dominating Test cricket before this loss. The long run of 18 straight Test victories in history for India has now come to an end with the loss in Pune.
