"Need To Chat With Certain Individuals": Rohit Sharma Makes Intentions Clear After India's Historic Loss vs NZ

 India skipper Rohit Sharma says he won't "overreact" after the embarrassing series defeat against New Zealand but he underlined the necessity to have a "quiet chat with certain individuals" to discuss the way forward. India lost the second Test by 113 runs after failing in pursuit of a stiff 359-run target. This was India's first home series defeat in 12 years after conceding a four-match rubber against England 1-2 in 2012-13.

In the interim, India won 18 series at home on the trot.

"You don't need to overreact. But you need to have a quiet chat with certain individuals and let them know where they are at and what, as a team, we require from them," said Rohit in the post-match press meet.

Driving home the reality might be on top of his agenda now, but Rohit did not want to make a spectacle out of it.

"I don't think you need to make them sit in a team room on a one-on-one basis and go through their innings and tell them this is what you should be doing. I don't think this is the right forum to do that.

"Just because we have lost a series, I don't think there is anything that we need to talk differently or do differently. But yeah, we need to find ways to come out of those situations," said Rohit.

Rohit said he trusts his teammates, who have won India so many matches.

"I do not doubt anyone's ability. I won't do much postmortem of this, but batters must come with their plans and trust on the plans like New Zealand batters showed." Some of the seniors in the side such as batting star Virat Kohli, senior spinners Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja were quite peripheral in their impact on this series, which India lost 0-2.

The seasoned triumvirate apart, even skipper Rohit could not fire in the ongoing series as his