India succumbed to its first-ever Take a look at collection loss at residence in 12 years on Saturday after New Zealand thrashed them by 113 runs within the second Take a look at. The final time India misplaced a Take a look at collection at residence, it was in opposition to Alastair Cook dinner-led England in 2012. Left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner weaved magic along with his 6-104 within the second innings on Saturday as New Zealand did the unimaginable by clinching a historic Take a look at collection win in India for the primary time with a 113-run victory over the hosts. Santner, who took 7-53 within the first innings, rattled India but once more with a exceptional spell of 6-104 to finish up with match figures of 13-157, the third-best match figures for a bowler from his nation in Exams.
Captain Rohit Sharma within the put up match press convention mentioned due to India’s nice displaying, the expectation at residence was at all times excessive from the crew.
“12 saal mein ekbar to allowed hai yaar. Itna collapses agar 12 saal se ho raha tha to shayad hum jeet he nahi hai paate. India me humara expectations bahut rehta hai, ki hum jo bhi match khelenge, humko jeetna he hai. Humne hello aadat banaya hai wo, aap emblem ka galti nahi hai, itna acha cricket Indian crew ne khela hai to wo expectations ek stage ke upar chala gaya hai (We’re allowed one such efficiency in 12 years. If we have been collapsing like this frequently then we’d not have been profitable at residence. We’ve plenty of expectations. We’re anticipated to win each recreation at our residence, and it’s due to our performances),” mentioned Rohit within the post-match press convention.
The remark was closely criticised by social media customers.
“12 saal mai ek baar toh allowed hai yaar”
It is totally embarrassing that this man ended up being the Captain of our Nationwide Cricket crew!!! #RohitSharma
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— Jyotirmay Das (@dasjy0tirmay) October 26, 2024
Nahi chalta Bhaisaab.. Chalta hai strategy waale nhi chahiye aur! Ye 4-5 gamers ki jageh ab naye emblem ko mauka diya jana chahiye..
— AB Anubhav (@ab97917000) October 26, 2024
Ajit wadekar by no means dared say this after 1974 debacle in England. A number of insult heaped on the crew. Although gamers needed to do full time jobs to earn their residing. He was in State Financial institution of India on his deserves. He was M. Sc. First division.
— ASHOK CHANDWASKAR (@ASHOKCHAND237) October 26, 2024
Shameless!!!
— AK (@rwamit) October 26, 2024
Rohit additionally admitted that the batters ought to carry out higher.
“I don’t doubt anybody’s skill. I will not do a lot postmortem of this, however batters should include their plans and belief on the plans like New Zealand batters confirmed,” Rohit mentioned through the post-match press convention.
“It is disappointing. It isn’t what we anticipated. We bought to provide credit score to New Zealand as they performed higher than us. We failed to reply to these challenges.” Then Rohit touched intimately on the batting malfunction half.
“I did not assume we batted properly sufficient to get runs on the board. You have to choose 20 wickets to win, sure, however batters should put runs on the board.
“It was an incredible fightback to limit them to 250-odd (within the first innings) however we knew it was going to be difficult. It wasn’t a pitch the place loads was occurring. Issues would’ve been barely completely different had we bought a bit nearer within the first innings,” he mentioned.
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