Rohit Sharma Press Conference: Urges Team to Reflect After 3-0 Defeat

Rohit Sharma’s Press Conference: Reflecting on Series Defeat

In the press conference following India’s defeat in the 3rd Test against New Zealand, Indian captain Rohit Sharma expressed his disappointment with the series outcome.

He acknowledged the team’s shortcomings and emphasized the need for better preparation and execution. “Losing 3-0 at home is a tough pill to swallow,” Sharma said. “We need to introspect and address the areas where we fell short. Credit to New Zealand for their consistent performance, but we have to look at ourselves and improve.”

Sharma also praised individual performances, highlighting the resilience shown by players like Rishabh Pant and Shubman Gill.

Rohits Press Conference

Rohit, how tough can it get from lifting the World Cup in yesterday till now, the first-ever bike watch in India? How tough can it get for you?

Yeah, it is. It is quite tough. And it tells you nothing is easy in life. You know, it’s. One day you’re on high, one day you’re not. And that is something that I’ve learned at a very young age about life. So. But that is something that personally I also drive myself through with not getting carried away with certain things in life. It is important, you know, for.

For me to understand that, you know, life is not about just highs. There can be lows as well, which I have seen a lot throughout my career. So. But definitely, something like this will be a very low point in my career, having lost three games at home. Yep, I fully take responsibility for that as a captain and as a leader. I have not been at the best of my abilities right from the start of the series. And yeah, with the bat as well, I’ve not been good enough.

In the light of the fact that, you know, we lost on another turning track and the last two tracks the ball offered along to the spinners. So I. Will you review your strategy of going in for turning tracks at home? Considering that the B are also vulnerable with A, that and B. Are you also disappointed that some of the short selection that happened in this match, including maybe.

Yeah, of course, yeah. Look, playing on pitches and all of that, we don’t decide, you know, so much before it is based on series to series what we want. We played on really good pitches against England and this time around we felt that this is the right thing for us to do as a team. You know, more often than not, we’ve come on the right side of it. This is. This is the only time where we have fallen short in terms of what we wanted to achieve from this series.

But yeah, again, you mentioned a short selection in this particular match. Yeah, it wasn’t up to the mark, starting from me, but when you’re. I would only say that you want to try when you’re chasing a target like that. You want to try to put the pressure on the bowlers. You can’t allow bowlers to bowl on one particular slot. You have to try and do something about it. But yeah, I mean, see, I played a bad shot, yes. But I don’t regret it, honestly speaking, because that has given me a lot of success in the past.

So I continue to do that every now and then. I will Reflect on what I need to do as a batter. But again, I know how things work here. When things don’t go well, the questions are asked. If things are going well, no questions are asked. So. But I accept it. You know, I accept the fact that we were not good enough with the bat in the entire series.

A lot of good things also happened during the series with the bat. But yeah, a couple of first two test matches where we fell very, very short in the first innings, and then New Zealand was ahead in the game that cost us those games. And even Now, I thought 147 should have been chasable. But yeah, we just were not good enough with the bat. We didn’t apply ourselves. A lot of mistakes were made.

Captain, firstly, your reaction as a captain of the team on that dismissal because clearly there was no conclusive evidence to overturn that decision. And second, you specified about, about your captaincy and some of the.

Can you please specify what the mistakes are?

About that dismissal? I honestly don’t know. If we say something, it is not accepted. Well, but if there is not conclusive evidence, it has to go, it has to stand with the umpire on field decision. That is what I’ve been told. So I don’t know how that decision was overturned since the umpire didn’t give him out.

You know, the bat was clearly close to the pad. So again, I don’t know if it’s the right thing for me to talk about. It is something for the umpires to think about, have the same rules for every team, not keep changing their mind. But again, that dismissal was actually crucial from our point of view.

Rishabh was really looking good at that point, and it felt like he would take us through. But it was an unfortunate dismissal. We got out, and then we were bowled out right after that. And your second question, obviously, look, right from the start I said it, you know, I made a decision about batting first on that Bangalore pitch.