TIL Desk Sports/ Captain Virat Kohli praised New Zealand for their impressive effort while admitting that his batsmen “were not good enough” on the day as India lost the second T20 International in Rajkot by 40 runs, on Saturday.
“Eventually, we were not good enough with the bat. When you are chasing 200, all the batsmen need to chip in, or one batsman has to keeping going at a 200 strike-rate.
“Tried to do my best. MS (Dhoni) was very good at the end, but we were left with a very difficult task. It happens to a lot of batsmen; sometimes you are in good form, but you don’t get enough balls,” said Kohli, at the post-match presentation ceremony.
“I thought New Zealand were really good with the bat early on. We didn’t take our chances; yes, but, at once stage, they were looking to get 235-240 and credit to (Jasprit) Bumrah and Bhuvi (Bhuvneshwar Kumar) to pull things back.”
