The Men in Blue led by Rohit Sharma faced their first ever defeat during the Sri Lanka series on Sunday, when the hosts comfortably defeated them by 32 runs at the R Premadasa stadium in Colombo. After the match Indian captain Rohit Sharma did not mince words in his assessment of the team’s performance when he stated that the Men in Blue did not play good cricket during the clash on Sunday.
Speaking to the presentors after the match, Rohit said, “We didn’t play good cricket, that’s why we lost the game. We do understand the nature of this surface and the nature of how the game is going to go as well. It gets really, really tough in the middle overs. So you have to try and capitalize in the powerplay and get as many runs as possible. That’s what both openers were trying to do. But we were just not good enough today,”
Indian captain Rohit Sharma has stuck to his aggressive approach in both the ODI matches of the Sri Lanka series so far, getting him to scores of 58 and 65 runs so far. Rohit asserted that despite the loss in 2nd ODI, he will continue to stick to his high risk approach since it fetches him runs.
“The reason I got 65 runs is because of the way I batted. When I bat like that, there is bound to be risk taking, and I’m not afraid to do that. Whenever you get out, whether you score 100, 50 or zero, you feel disappointed if you don’t get across the line. But that won’t change my intent,” the Indian skipper added