Former India keeper-batter Dinesh Karthik said that senior cricketers should take responsibility for the Test series loss at home against New
Zealand. He shared that knowing the players personally, they will have no qualms in admitting that they let the team down. However, India lost to New Zealand by 113 runs in the second Test in Pune as well after losing the first Test by eight wickets in Bengaluru.

Speaking to Cricbuzz, he said (as quoted by PTI): “Yeah. Why shouldn’t it (the onus of the series loss) be the senior players? They will look at themselves and say, ‘What could we have done better?’ I don’t think they have run away from it.”If you can celebrate the highs and the fans enjoy how important they are, when the team wins, then when the losses happen, and the brick bats are thrown at you, I think they will have the courage to face it.”

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“If you go and ask each one of them personally, what they think of the series, I don’t think they will have great things to say about how the whole team played, and it is only but fair to ask them questions about what can be done better for future of Test cricket in India and for Indian Test cricket,” he added.

“So, knowing them personally, and I do know each one of them personally. They will say that they didn’t have the best series. The question then becomes what do they need to do to get better and it is a very, very current question to ask,” he concluded.