With Mitchell Santner taking 7 for 53, which he would apply with 6 for 104 in the second innings, the Republic of India fell to 156 in all their first innings, conceding a supremacy of 103 that left them chasing the sport for the extra. of the contest Check it out. Unused Zealand were chasing a score of 359, a busy one on a variable-spin track, and despite a bright start, courtesy of a 65-ball 77 from Yashasvi Jaiswal, Republic of India ultimately fell short.
“I didn’t think we batted well enough to get runs on the board,” Rohit said in the post-match presentation. “Of course, if you want to win Test matches you have to take 20 wickets, yes, but batsmen have to put runs on the board too.
“We didn’t put many runs on the board in the first innings, and going forward we were at the back of the game: 100 [103] takes supremacy to New Zealand, and from there, it was clearly a big counterattack on our part to limit them to 250-something. [255, in the second innings]but we knew it was going to be a little complicated, but we gave it our all.
“We came out thinking we could pursue that goal, but again, the continued pressure from both of us [ends] meant we couldn’t respond to those challenges.”
Given the nature of the pitch, there was a feeling that the Republic of India had allowed Unused Zealand to score too many runs in an hour during the Test, but Rohit felt his bowlers had done well to limit them. at 259.
“No, not really. [too many runs]” he stated. “To be honest, when they started, there were about 200 [197] for 3, and then coming back and bowling them out for 259 was a huge effort. But again, I thought it wasn’t a release where there was a lot going on. We just didn’t bat well enough. “If we had gotten closer to that first innings score, things would have been slightly different, but again, New Zealand played better.”
With defeats in Bengaluru and Pune hitting the Republic of India 2-0, they go into the third Test in Mumbai with the strength to avoid their first whitewash in a home series of three or more Tests. There may be a lot of success in that Test contest and the five-match series in Australia that follows to ensure the Republic of India stays in the race for next day’s International Test Championship final, but for now Rohit. They said they were focusing solely on the rapid activity in question.
“We want to perform well in Wankhede and try to win that Test match,” he said. “Not to think too much about the future. It’s important that we focus on our next game, on what better we can do as a unit because it’s a collective failure. I’m not someone who just blames the hitters or the pitchers. It’s the team that hasn’t accepted the challenge that has been thrown at us, it is so simple [as that]. We will come out with better intentions, better ideas and better methods in Wankhede.”
