IND vs NZ: Paper lions piled up on the field, Kohli-Rohit's experience was ruined, Team India should be ashamed!

IND vs NZ: There is a very old saying, 'Name is big and philosophy is small.' This line fits perfectly into the Indian batting order adorned with legends. Cricket is worshiped in India and batsmen like Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are even given the status of God. Fans go crazy to get a glimpse of these cricketers. These players get so much love in this country, which cannot be expressed in words. But when these cricketers are not able to perform their work properly, then the hearts of these fans hurt a lot. Against New Zealand, everyone felt that Team India would be successful in defeating them easily. However, no one knew that New Zealand, which had lost to a team like Bangladesh, would be so heavy on Rohit's platoon at home in India.

The Kiwi team not only played a strong game, but seeing the performance of the Indian batsmen in both the test matches, the blood of every cricket fan boiled. Batsmen like Kohli, Rohit, Pant, Shubman Gill played in Bengaluru and Pune as if they had just entered club cricket. Our batsmen were thrilled to see the Kiwi bowling attack in full swing. If it was only about the first innings of the Bengaluru Test, everyone would have forgotten it by calling it a bad day. But the same mistake was repeated not in one but in three innings.

Paper lion piled on the ground

Yashasvi Jaiswal, Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja. These names are not of any ordinary players, rather these players are counted among the best players in the world. However, the truth is that if your team is in trouble and you are of no use, then what is the point of being a star player. Team India had a target of 359 runs in the Pune Test. Rohit flopped, but Yashasvi Jaiswal showed strength and played an inning of 77 runs. 96 runs were on the score board and only one wicket had fallen. If you are the top team in the world, then you are expected to take advantage of this start and continue that momentum.

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But with Team India, exactly the opposite happened. From 96 to one, the situation worsened to such an extent that by the time the team crossed the 150 mark, five of the team's batsmen returned to the pavilion. Now when batsmen like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma are no longer in action, what would you expect from the lower order. The same thing happened and the entire team collapsed at 245.

earth-shattering experience

Rohit Sharma has experience of 63 matches and has played 109 innings so far in his Test career. Virat Kohli has experience of 117 test matches and 199 test innings. One has 12 centuries in his name and the other has 29 centuries in his name. However, what is the use of so much experience if you cannot become a shield for your team in difficult situations. Out of the two test matches, Rohit Sharma returned to the pavilion twice without opening his account. Somehow the captain scored 8 runs in the second innings of the Pune Test. At the same time, Kohli, who is called the life of Team India's batting order, disappointed so much that every Indian fan's heart broke. In the first innings, only one run came from Virat's bat, while in the second innings, the star known as King Kohli scored 17 runs.

Rohit and Kohli are the most experienced players and batsmen of this Test team. It is expected from both of them that they will take the responsibility of steering the team's boat in difficult times. But not only in this Test series, but for quite some time now, both these greats return to the pavilion silently with their heads bowed. Questions will be asked and if you want to remain in the Indian team, you will have to score runs with the bat. The New Zealand series has been an eye-opener, but despite this, if the same situation happens in Australia, then the selectors should not shy away from taking some difficult decisions.

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