Rohit Sharma Lose vs AUS BGT 2024 4th Test: Team India suffered a humiliating defeat by 184 runs in the Melbourne Test and now Australia has taken a 2-1 lead in the Border-Gavaskar series. Yashasvi Jaiswal played the highest innings of 84 runs from the Indian team. Earlier today, Australia’s second innings was reduced to 234 runs. India has got a target of 340 runs to win. While chasing the target, India has suffered three setbacks in the form of Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli.
Rohit Sharma said on defeat in Melbourne
Rohit Sharma said, “There is still one more match left. The series should be drawn, a draw would be good. Look, when you lose, it hurts more than the batting performance. When the results don’t come, I feel sad. Even if Be it a bowler or a batsman, you don’t change the game even when you get a chance. We tried everything possible, but we could not take advantage of the important opportunities, but the credit goes to Australia, they played well.”
Rohit Sharma disappointed with the defeat
Very disappointing. It is not that we came with the intention of not fighting, we wanted to fight till the end, but unfortunately we could not do so. It will be difficult to assess only the last session. We have to look at the whole Test match, we had chances, we had chances, but we didn’t take advantage of them and we allowed Australia to come back into the game when our score was 90/6. I know things can get difficult, but that’s what we are for, we wanted to be in difficult conditions and play hard cricket, I don’t want to just see one incident happen in the game.
Rohit Sharma’s statement on further strategy
I’ll go back to my room and think about it. What else could we have done as a team, but we tried our best. We gave our all, but they gave a tough fight in the last wicket partnership. We had chances and we could not capitalize on them. Maybe that’s why we lost the game. We knew that a score of 340 was not going to be easy for us. We tried our best, if we had got wickets in the last two sessions we could have achieved the target, but they bowled really well.
We wanted to set the stage, but it did not happen. There are many ways to win the game and we fell short. Nitish Reddy (Rohit Sharma on Nitish Reddy Century) is coming here for the first time, these conditions can be difficult, but he has shown a very good game and has also shown solid technique. Their future is bright and they have all the skills to succeed. We know his quality, we have been watching him for many years, coming here and working for the team, he is not a statistical person, just wants to come there and play for the country, that is what he is doing on this tour, unfortunately. They need a little more support from the other side as well. The way he has handled himself is fantastic.
This was the condition of the match
During Australia’s second innings, Bumrah took 5 wickets while Siraj took three wickets. Mitchell Marsh was run out. Let us tell you that Australia had scored 474 runs in its first innings, in response to which India had scored 369 runs in its first innings.
Captain Pat Cummins and Scott Boland took three wickets each and thanks to excellent bowling from Australia, the team defeated India by 184 runs in the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Monday. India’s score at tea was 112/3, with Yashasvi Jaiswal scoring a composed half-century and Rishabh Pant showing remarkable composure. But in the final session of the thrilling Test match, Pant became the victim of Travis Head and this opened the way for Australia to take the lead and India was reduced to 155 runs from 121/3.
The Indian team lost its last seven wickets for 34 runs in 20.3 overs, which means Australia has now taken a 2-1 lead in the five-match series ahead of the final match in Sydney. As for India, they will be disappointed because this was a game they could have drawn, but now they have lost.