Published 18:08 IST, November 10th 2022

Bhogle questions Rohit on India's poor record in knockout games, India skipper responds

Indian skipper Rohit Sharma answered the tough question about why India struggles in ICC tournaments, despite being a dominant winning side in bilateral series.

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India failed to vance into ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2022 final after losing to England by 10 wickets at elaide Oval on Thursday. After scoring 168/6 in first innings, India failed to defend total as England completed a dominant win over . 1 ranked T20I team in world. Meanwhile, during post-match interview, India captain Rohit Sharma shed light on why India returns with upsets at ICC events, despite a stellar winning record in bilateral series.

On being asked to shed his thoughts on matter by Harsha Bhogle, Rohit said it's all about handling pressure in tense situations, which can’t be taught to every individual. “When it comes to kckout sts, it's all about handling pressure. Depends on individual as well because you can't really go and teach how to handle pressure. All se guys have played eugh cricket to understand that. A lot of se guys, when y come out and play playoffs in IPL and all that, those are high-pressure games, and some of se guys are able to handle that,” Rohit said.

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captain furr emphasized topic of handling pressure, before pointing out that India didn’t start game well. “ way we started with ball was t ideal. We were a little nervy, but you have to give credit to openers as well. y played really well,” he ded.

'Pretty disappointing how we turned up today': Rohit Sharma on India's loss in semi-final

Earlier Rohit revealed his feelings about losing to England by 10 wickets in just 16 overs. “It's pretty disappointing how we turned up today. I thought we still batted pretty well at back end to get to that score, but we were t good eugh with ball. It was definitely t a wicket where a team can come and chase it down in 17-16 overs. Things like that can happen, with ball we didn't turn up today,” Rohit said.

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At same time, Rohit also me table revelations about team’s disappointing bowling performance in semi-final. When Bhuvi bowled first over it swung today, but t from right areas. We spoke about it, we wanted to keep it tight on stumps, t give room because we looked at elaide pretty well, square of wicket was an area we were aware of - that's where runs came today. If we keep it tight and batsman still score runs, we'll take it. But we didn't do that today."

18:07 IST, November 10th 2022