Ravi knows our mindset, if he thought we were overconfident, it’s nonsense: Rohit

Indian captain Rohit Sharma termed as ‘nonsense’ former head coach Ravi Shastri’s comment that the Indian team lost the Indore Test against Australia due to overconfidence. Shastri was the head coach of the Indian team for six out of seven years after 2014. Commenting on India’s nine-wicket defeat at the hands of Australia in the third Test, he said that the Indian team was a bit complacent and overconfident where they took things for granted.

Captain Rohit has maintained his calm, composure and dignity in the last 18 months but when asked about the former coach’s assessment of the third Test match, he replied very firmly. Said in the evening, “To be honest, when you win two matches, people outside feel that we are overconfident. This is complete nonsense because you want to give your best in all the four matches. You don’t want to stop after winning two matches. It’s as simple as that. Surely all these people when they talk about overconfidence and especially when they are not part of the dressing room, they do not know what kind of discussion took place in the dressing room.

Rohit’s reply was to a man who till recently was the chief strategist of the team. The Indian captain said, “We want to give our best in all the matches and if it looks overconfident or something like that to an outsider, it doesn’t really matter to us.” Rohit said, “Ravi himself. He has been a part of this dressing room and he knows the kind of mindset we have when we play. It is not about being overconfident but being ruthless. Ruthless is the word that comes to every cricketer’s mind and is associated with not giving even the slightest chance to the opposition when they are on a foreign tour. We also feel the same when we visit abroad.