Indian national cricket team captain Rohit Sharma made a shocking statement after his team faced a series of defeats at home after 12 years. He said that with the kind of cricket they have played at home, they are allowed to have a bad series.
The Indian national cricket team had a poor outing in the first two Tests against the New Zealand national cricket team and saw them lose the series with one match remaining. This caused the team to face a lot of criticism, especially with the last test series loss at home against England in 2012.
The Indian national cricket team went all out for 156 runs in the first innings.
India, who suffered a disappointing defeat in the Bengaluru Test, faced another horrible defeat in the next game. They lost the game by a huge margin of 113 runs at the Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium in Pune, and this also caused them to lose crucial points in the World Test Championship.
Rohit Sharma and his men showed a horrible batting performance, and that was the main reason why they suffered a bad defeat in the second Test. After New Zealand posted a total of 259 runs, they could not beat their score at all.
The Indian national cricket team went all out for 156 runs, conceding a lead of over 100 runs. After that, they failed to take the first wickets as the visitors took a huge lead of over 350 runs. They were then expected to put up a better batting performance with the bat in the second innings.
Rohit Sharma and his team fail to chase the target
But that was not to be the case as Rohit Sharma and his team made another poor attempt. The skipper came out for 8 runs. After that, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill (23) added 62 runs for the second wicket.
After that, Mitchell Santner once again attacked all the batsmen, picking another fifty in the game. Ravichandran Ashwin (18) and Ravindra Jadeja (42) came up with the handy 39-run partnership. But India could not surpass the total.
Rohit Sharma, after the defeat, made a strange statement, saying that they were allowed to collapse. He said if they had had regular meltdowns, they wouldn’t have had a 12-year streak at home. He said that in India they are expected to win every match.
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“You are allowed to play once in 12 years, my friend. If all this falls apart from 12 years ago, then maybe we won’t be able to win. Our expectations in India are very high, whatever game we play, we will we will do.” “It’s a tradition, it’s not your fault, the Indian team has played such good cricket that expectations have been raised to a level,” Rohit Sharma said.
(We are allowed a performance like this in 12 years. If we were collapsing like this regularly then we wouldn’t have won at home. We have high expectations. We are expected to win every game at home, and it is because of our performances.) ”
“This is allowed once every 12 years, friend” 😭
“We’ve gotten into this habit over the last 12 years.”
You have lost 4 tests in the last 11 home test matches 😭😭 @YometroRoh45 have some shame pYodo.twYottmyr.doohmetro/andmetro3RW.north5metrowW.
—Gaurav (@Melbourne__82) ohdotohbmyr 26, 2024
The last Test of the series will be played from November 1 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.