New Delhi (Nilesh Tiwari), 4 November: New Zealand whitewashed India by winning the third test match in Wankhede Stadium on Sunday. New Zealand’s spin bowler Ajaz Patel once again eliminated India from the match by taking fifer in fourth innings.This is the first time team India has whitewashed its own home soil.
New Zealand beat India by 25 runs to clean-sweep the series 3-0 at Wankhede Stadium.
India’s wicket keeper-batsman Rishabh Pant played outstanding innings in the fourth innings and kept India alive in the test match but once he was dismissed, the remaining batters collapsed like a pack of cards.
Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma’s flop show continues both senior players have shown very poor batting in this home series, Both the batsmen have scored a fifty in the 3 test match series and this has been a major reason why India was whitewashed.
Highlights
India lost a Test series 3-0 for the first time ever at home.
New Zealand beat India by 25 runs.
New Zealand clean-sweep India 3-0
Taking responsibility of losing the match, Rohit Sharma said, “I fully take the responsibility of this as a captain. I have not been at my best”.
He further said, “Starting with the toss in Bengaluru and many tactical errors throughout the series. I have not been at my best and that probably cost us the series”.
“We are going to Australia early, some players have played there, some haven’t – now our focus is Australia series”, Rohit Sharma added.
However he believes that he hasn’t lost faith in his defence. He said, “I need to spend more time out there. It’s been only these two series that I haven’t batted well. As you grow, you try to evolve and as a batter I am trying to do that. I will relook at my game and see what I can do”.
