Rohit said he was trying to put pressure on the bowlers and would continue playing that shot as it had earlier helped him.
"Shot selection in this particular match wasn't up to the mark, starting from me. The only thing I would say is that when you're chasing a target like that, you want to try and put the pressure on the bowlers. You can't allow bowlers to bowl on one particular spot. You have to try and do something about it.".
"But, yeah, I will say I played a bad shot. But I don't regret it, honestly speaking, because that has given me a lot of success in the past. So I will continue to do that," said Rohit Sharma.
I know that with bat we couldn't play well throughout the series. There were many good things also going with bat in the course of the series.
"But yes, in the first two Test matches, we actually felt very, very short in the first innings, and then New Zealand were forward in the game that eventually cost us those games, and even now I thought 147 should have been chased. But yes, we just were not good enough at the back. We didn't apply ourselves. There were a lot of mistakes that were made," said the India captain.
Rohit admitted that he hasn't defended much in the series so far, though said he hasn't had much time in the middle to defend the ball.
As an opener, he added he would like to set a tone for innings and thus tried to play aggressively.
"So sometimes when the openers go in, they set the tone and sometimes you can fall on the other side of it as well. And this series I have fallen on the other side of it, but I don't see that I have lost faith in my defence.".
"It's just that I need to spend more time to defend balls which I haven't done in this series and I accept that I haven't batted well in this series. But yeah, look, it's been only these two series where I've not had enough time in the middle. The series that I played before Bangladesh, I spent a lot of time," said Rohit.
"As you grow, you try and evolve and I'm trying to evolve as a batter as well to try and see what else I can do. So I will relook at my game and see what best I can do," he added.
The skipper will have to evaluate all these points in the next couple of weeks before they leave for Australia.
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