He has promised that India may come out with "better intention, better suggestions, and better techniques" in the second Test
India lost their first home-series defeat in 12 years to New Zealand in the 113-run defeat in the Pune Test, and Rohit Sharma has suggested that the batters ' inability to bat close to the visitors ' 259-run first-innings total contributed to the loss.
India lost to 156 all out in their second innings, giving up a result of 103, which left them chasing the game for the rest of the Test match after Mitchell Santner took 7 for 53, which he would follow up with 6 for 104 in the next pitches. India finished third in the field despite a strong start thanks to a 65-ball 77 from Yashasvi Jaiswal, which is a huge job on a track with varying turn.
" I did n't think we batted well enough to get runs on the board", Rohit said at the post-match presentation. " Of program, if you want to get Test matches, you've got to get 20 innings, yes, but pitchers have got to put runs on the table as well.
" We did n't put sufficiently runs on the table in the first pitches, and then we were behind in the sport- 100]103] goes lead to New Zealand, and then from there, obviously it was a great comeback from us to limit them to 250-odd]255, in the second innings], but then again we knew it was going to be a little hard, but we gave it our all.
" We came out thinking that we can chase that target, but again, the continuous pressure from both]ends ] meant that we were not able to respond to those challenges".
Given the nature of the pitch, there was a sensation that India had allowed New Zealand to score to some goes on day one of the Test, but Rohit felt his bowlers had done a good work to limit them to 259.
" No, not really]too many runs ]", he said. " To be honest, when they started off, they were 200-odd]197] for 3, and then for us to come back and get them bowled out for 259 was a wonderful work. But again, I thought it was n't a pitch where a lot was happening. We just did n't bat well enough. Had we gotten closer to that score of primary pitches, things would have been somewhat different, but once, New Zealand played better".
With loses in Bengaluru and Pune putting India 2-0 over, they go to the second Test in Mumbai under stress to reduce their first-ever paint in a home series of three or more Testing. There is also the stress of winning enough points in that Test match and the five-match set in Australia that follows to maintain India remain in the race for next year's World Test Championship last, but for now Rohit said they were just focused on the immediate task in hand.
He stated," We want to perform well at Wankhede and try to win that Test match." " Not thinking too far ahead. It's important that we focus on our next game, what better we can do as a unit because it's a collective failure. I'm not one to just attribute blame to the bowlers or the batters. It's the team that has failed to accept the challenge that was thrown at us, it's as simple]as that ]. We will come out with better intent, better ideas, and better methods at Wankhede".
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