New Delhi. Captain Rohit Sharma said on Sunday (October 20) that “these three hours” will not decide the Indian team’s performance and on that basis, after the team was bowled out for 46 runs in the first innings of the first Test against New Zealand, His players are judged on this basis. Any decision in this regard would be wrong. The Indian team showed great fighting spirit and scored 462 runs in the second innings but New Zealand managed to win the game by eight wickets.

Rohit said that one bad game in a season has no impact on his team’s ability to play cricket and recover from difficult situations. “To be honest, I won’t pay too much attention to this friendly because they won’t decide in three hours what this team is,” he said in the post-match press conference. They know that it would be wrong to think about those three hours and judge the players on that basis.

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The Indian captain said, “It is important for us to maintain a positive atmosphere in the team.” In the second innings, we really found a way with the bat to get back into this game. We lost the friendly but I think a lot of good things happened for us in that game. The Indian captain admitted that the team made “some mistakes” but there is no need to panic ahead of the upcoming match.

He said: “We made small mistakes in this game and we have to face the consequences of them.” However, that doesn’t mean all is lost. We’ve lost games like this before and then we made a comeback. So we’ll try not to think too much about this test. Now it’s important to maintain a calm atmosphere without panicking. It’s important that we stay strong and try to win the second game. “At one point it seemed like we were ahead in the game. “We didn’t feel like we were behind 350 and I’m really proud of that.”

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