Team India captain Rohit Sharma remained unbothered despite the shocking eight-wicket defeat to New Zealand in the first Test of the three-match series in Bengaluru. However, Team India were bowled out for the lowest-ever team total of 46 in India during their first innings after winning the toss and batting first as well.

At the post-match press conference, Rohit said, “Even here, there are a lot of good things that happened along with 3-4 hours of bad cricket. So, keeping a lot of cricket in mind that is coming up, I am not going to look too much into this Test match. That 3 hours is not going to dictate what this team is. It would be very unfair to think about those three hours and start judging players and talking slightly differently,” said Rohit.

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“Looking forward to the second Test in Pune, we know exactly what we need to do and where we lie as a team. It’s about keeping a calm atmosphere and not sending panic messages. It’s important we stay strong and try and see how we can nail the second game. All in all, I thought except that first couple of hours, three hours, I thought we played very good Test cricket,” he again shared.

However, Rohit Sharma also added that they have much to be proud of with their second innings fightback despite the first Test defeat to New Zealand as well. Four of India’s top five scored 50+ in their second innings with Sarfaraz Khan scoring a stunning 195-ball 150. However, India faced a collapse against the second new ball, losing the final seven wickets for 54 runs to put up a target of 107 which New Zealand easily chased. down.

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“I think it’s important to keep a consistent message, which is to try and make a way back into the game whenever we are under pressure. We really found a way to fight back, of course, we lost a Test match. That’s why it won’t make sense about what I am saying. Honestly, there are a lot of good things that happened to us in this Test match. I am proud of everyone to go out there and play like that and show that attitude. See, every time we play the first Test of a series, we don’t go in with ht mindset of playing casual cricket. It just happens to be that we lost against England. We came close and just lost by 20 runs there,” Rohit Sharma concluded.