NEW DELHI: Captain Rohit Sharma made it clear that India may have suffered a first Test series Loss since 2012 but assured there is no reason to hit the panic button.
He stressed that the team has had a successful run over the past twelve years and will focus on identifying areas for improvement: “I will not overreact after this defeat. You have to talk to certain players. There is no need to sit in one.” “No clear message, keep calm and that is our responsibility (to the youngsters),” Rohi said at the post-match press conference.
India suffered their first home Test series defeat in 12 years New Zealand handed them a humiliating 113-run defeat, led by Mitchell Santner's remarkable 13-wicket haul in the second Test. This victory gave New Zealand an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-game series.

“We had a great run for 12 years, we did great things in that time. I don't think we have to talk or do things differently. We'll think about what we didn't do well and what we did.” “I can improve, but I don't need to open a medical kit and start doing other things. We have to understand that this team has done a lot of good things in the past.”
After the fourth defeat this season World Test Championship In this cycle, India is now ahead of Australia by just 0.32 percentage points and holds 62.82 points compared to Australia's 62.50. However, Rohit stated that it is too early to focus on the WTC rankings and stressed that the team cannot dwell on what lies ahead.
“It is still too early to think about WTC. It hurts me because we lost the game. I can't imagine what lies ahead and whether it affects our chances. It hurts me because we lost the series. There are things we have to do.” “If you lose a Test, it's because the collective unity has failed. If you win, everyone has to take the blame.”
“We have won 18 series in a row at home. So we did a good job. In this series we didn't bat as well as we needed to. Things like this happen. We scored on difficult wickets. I don’t want that.” I don’t want to dwell on these two bad tests for long. What we wanted to do in this series didn't often work. We trusted our plan, our process and our method. We used to do that.