India National Cricket Team led by the 35-year-old opening batsman Rohit Sharma faced a 4-wicket defeat in the first T20I of the three-match T20I series against Aaron Finch’s Australia National Cricket Team at the Punjab Cricket Association IS Bindra Stadium, Mohali, Chandigarh on Tuesday, September 20.
Don’t think we bowled well. 200 is a good score to defend – Rohit Sharma
Rohit Sharma was pleased with the performance of the batters, however, he admitted that the players were not good on the field. He elaborated:
“I don’t think we bowled well. 200 is a good score to defend, and we didn’t take our chances on the field. It was a great effort from our batters, but bowlers were quite not there. There are things we need to look at, but it was a great game for us to understand what went wrong.”
India National Cricket Team captain also lauded Australia batters for playing extraordinary shots. Rohit Sharma said:
“We know this is a high-scoring ground. You can’t relax even if you get 200. We took wickets to an extent, but they played really well. They played some extra-ordinary shots. If I was in that changing room, I would expect to chase that total. You can back yourself to get 60 runs in the final 4 overs.”
“We were not able to take their wicket. That was the turning point, if we would have taken a wickets, things would have been different. You can’t score 200 every day, you need to bat well. Hardik batted really well to get us there. We need to look at our bowling before the next game.”
