He agreed that the home series in which India lost after 12 years on their soil wasn’t his best – individually or as a leader.
Rohit Sharma, indeed a disappointed man, witnessed a historic whitewash.
“Yeah, absolutely, you know, losing a series, losing a Test is never easy, it’s something that’s not easily digestible. Again, we didn’t play our best cricket, but we know and have to accept,” Rohit said at the post-match presentation.
The Indian captain also accepted that batting, especially in Mumbai, let them down.
“They did so much better than us in the entire series. We make many mistakes, and we have to accept them. We did not put enough runs on the board in the 1st innings (in Bengaluru and Pune), and we were very much behind in the game,” he said.
“Here we got a 30-run lead, we thought we were ahead, the target was achievable as well, all we had to do was a bit application, which we failed to do,” he said.
Rohit said of his batting: “Chasing such a target, you want runs on the board as well; that’s something in my mind; it didn’t come off, and when it happens, it doesn’t look great.
There are specific ideas and certain plans on my mind when I go to bat, but in this series, it didn’t come off, and that’s disappointing for me.”
