It's about Rishabh figuring out the right way, says Rohit

Rohit Sharma was calmer on Monday. Disappointed, but calmer. Much less emotional than he was when he had berated Yashasvi Jaiswal on Day 4 of the Boxing Day Test or when he had seen Rishabh Pant's dismissal on Day 3, or witnessed the mix-up between Virat Kohli and Jaiswal on Day 2.

- Ashish Magotra

MELBOURNE:

A series of missed opportunities marked the fourth Test for India; a series of misadventures threw them off and finally with a draw in sight, they lost their nerve. They collapsed and Australia clinched the kind of win that can often break the opposition's spirit.

At tea, India were in with a chance to earn a draw that would have felt like a win. They were 112/3 with both, Jaiswal and Pant, having got their eye in. The message then was to be realistic. To play the match situation.

"Obviously when you come here chasing 340 in mind, we did that the last time around (at the Gabba in 2021), so there's no way that we were not thinking of the target, but to get that target you need to lay the foundation for the other batters to come and play the way they want to play. We've got guys in our team who can, you know, take the game till the end. But unfortunately, Rishabh got out and we lost a couple of wickets right after that. And then, it we knew that it was always going to be tough. You want to chase the target, you want to be positive and stuff like that, but you got to be realistic as well sometimes," Rohit told reporters.