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India skipper Rohit Sharma admitted to making tactical errors following his team’s 0-3 Test series clean sweep defeat to New Zealand on Sunday. Looking to chase down 147 in the third Test in Mumbai on Sunday, India were bowled out for 121, with Rishabh Pant playing a fighting knock of 64.
This is the first time India have suffered a 0-3 Test series whitewash at home. Rohit said that this series defeat was a low point in his career.
‘Low point in my career’
”Something like this will be a very low point of my career and I take full responsibility for it,” Rohit said at the post-match press conference. ”I was not at my best as captain in leading the team as well as with the bat also. Collectively as a unit we failed to perform,” the India skipper added.
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He added that losing a Test series like this at home is not ”easily digestible”. ”Yes absolutely (bitter pill to swallow). Losing a series, a Test match, is never easy… something that is not easily digestible. We didn’t play our best cricket. New Zealand played better throughout the series. There were a lot of mistakes we did,” Rohit said at the post-match presentation ceremony.
”The first two Tests we did not put enough runs in the first innings. This game we got the 30 runs (28) lead and the target was chaseable."
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”We failed as a unit. When you are chasing a target like that, you want runs on the board. That was in my mind and it did not come of. When it does not come off it does not look great,” he added. Rohit also admitted that he was disappointed with his own performance.
”I go in with certain plans and those did not come off this series. We did not play our best cricket in these conditions and are facing the result of that," he commented.
With PTI inputs
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