India lost to New Zealand at home to its first-ever Test series in 12 years: Rohit Sharma won’t overreact

Captain Rohit Sharma, however, is set to speak with “certain individuals” after a hurtful NZ series loss.

On Saturday, India suffered its first-ever Test series loss at home in 12 years after New Zealand thrashed them by 113 runs in the second Test. The last time India lost a Test series at home was in 2012 against Alastair Cook-led England. India’s captain Rohit Sharma won’t overreact, but he is set to have a conversation with certain individuals after the devastating loss against New Zealand in the second Test of the three-match series at the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium in Pune.

Rohit Sharma says his side couldn’t put enough runs on the board.

While speaking at the post-match presentation, India captain Rohit Sharma said that his side wasn’t able to put enough runs on the board in the 1st innings, which proved to be a massive turning point. He said, “Disappointing. It is not what we expected but again, we have to give credit to New Zealand, they played better than us. We failed to capitalize on certain moments in the game which were thrown at us. We failed to respond to those challenges, and we sit here with this result today.” He added, “Yeah, look, I didn’t think we batted well enough to get runs on the board. We know, if you want to win, you have to get 20 wickets, yes but batters have to put runs on the board as well. We didn’t put enough runs in the first innings and were then 100 runs behind. From there, obviously it was a great fightback from us to restrict them to 250 odd but we knew, it was going to be challenging.”

Rohit Sharma said he will not start judging his team.

During the post-match press conference, he said, “I just said it, because of these three sessions, I am not going to react differently. Look at the number of games we have won in India. I was just watching the television, out of the 54 Test matches, we have won 42 that is nearly 80 per cent. There are more good things that have happened than bad things. I don’t want to react so much that guys within the team start thinking that something different is happening. I don’t want to create that kind of environment where people start doubting themselves.”

He added, “You don’t need to overreact. But you need to have a quiet chat with certain individuals and let them know where they are at and what, as a team, we require from them. I don’t think you need to make them sit in a team room on a one-on-one basis and go through their innings and tell them this is what you should be doing. I don’t think this is the right forum to do that.”