Srinagar: Team India skipper Rohit Sharma has said that his side is focussed on upcoming T20 World Cup 2022 despite suffering two back to back defeats in Asia Cup 2022.
India suffered to a six-wicket defeat against Sri Lanka in the Super Four of the Asia Cup, following their loss against Pakistan.
With the loss, an exit looms large for India in the tournament, with them needing multiple scenarios to play out in their favour to qualify for the final.
On India’s batting, Rohit said in the post-match press conference, “We didn’t score as many runs as we wanted to in the first six overs because we lost wickets. We should have capitalised better from the momentum we got after that.
“We couldn’t close the game properly with the bat. We had spoken about this in the team meeting.. about how nicely we have dealt with in close matches. These things happen. We were 10 or 12 runs short but we still had a good score.”
On picking Pant over Karthik, Rohit said, “Very simple, we just wanted a left-hander to bat in the middle, that’s why is out. He is not out because of any form or anything, we wanted a left-hander to bat in the middle and take the pressure off of some of our batsmen who are batting with that left-hander.”
Rohit also believes that he has a settled combination heading into the T20 World Cup in Australia and isn’t worried after back-to-back defeats.
“We are not worried after losing two matches back to back. We have won so many matches after the 2021 T20 World Cup”.
“We are 90 per cent settled, only a few changes will happen. We don’t have any shortcomings. There is quality in the team. There is more pressure in multi-nation series as compared to bilateral series. We have discussed this. it’s unfortunate that we couldn’t get past the group stages of the T20 World Cup and now we lost two matches in the Asia Cup Super Four,” Rohit stated about the setup of his side heading into the showpiece event in Australia.
