TIL Desk Sports/ India captain Virat Kohli berated his bowlers for their mediocre performance as he tried to explain the team’s first ODI series whitewash in over three decades, saying that the visitors lacked composure all through.
The five-wicket defeat in Mt. Maunganui meant that India lost the series 0-3 to an injury-plagued New Zealand that had been deflated by a 0-5 whitewash of its own in the T20 format just last week. It was India’s first whitewash in 31 years in an ODI series in which all matches have been played. “The games were not as bad as the scoreline suggests. It boils down to those chances that we didn’t grab.
I don’t think it was enough to win games in international cricket,” Kohli said in the post-match presentation in Mt. Maunganui on Tuesday.” With the ball, we were not able to make breakthroughs, we were not at all good on the field. We haven’t played so badly but when you don’t grab those chances, you don’t deserve to win,” he added.
