"We want to break it down to just Melbourne now": Rohit Sharma

Ahead of the Boxing Day Test of the BorderGavaskar Trophy India skipper Rohit Sharma on Tuesday said that they are currently focussing only on the upcoming Test match and are looking forward to displaying a strong performance at MelbourneAhead of the fourth Test match against Australia Team India skipper Rohit Sharma said that they are currently focusing only on the upcoming Test match in Melbourne and are looking to display a strong performanceThe fivematch Test series between India and Australia is currently tied at 11 The third match ended in a draw and the fourth game is set to kick start on December 26Also ReadWe need two spinners playing Rohit Sharma on Tanush Kotians selectionTeam India started the series on a high note with a 295run win in the first match Later they suffered a 10wicket loss in the second match The Gabba Test ended in a draw as the rain played the spoilsportSpeaking at the prematch press conference Rohit said that India played some really good cricket at the Perth Test of the ongoing BGT seriesWe played some really good cricket weve been fortunate as well when we won that test match when you get bowled out for 150 runs you feel that you are under pressure a little bit and then the attitude from the boys how they turned up and got Australia bowled out for 100 runs shows that there is an attitude where nobody wants to give it up until the last day of the test match or the last over of the test match is bowled and that is the attitude weve been carrying for a long time now when you tour abroad you know that you have to put in that extra effort have that extra bit of attitude within the team and that is something that we showed in that test match Rohit saidHe added that Team India was a little bit behind in the game at the Adelaide Test and didnt play well The India skipper further said that both sides have displayed solid cricket in the ongoing BGT seriesAnd then obviously in Adelaide we were a little bit behind in the game we didnt play well which I admitted to And then Brisbane obviously there wasnt much only 180 or 190 overs were bowled so after three test matches if I had to look at it being oneall its a fair reflection of how both teams have played theres been solid cricket being played by both teams and obviously now these two test matches are going to be so important for both teams but we want to break it down to just Melbourne now and focus on what we can achieve here get our things right play well bat well bowl well and take some good catches as well he addedIndia Squad Rohit Sharma C Jasprit Bumrah VC Yashasvi Jaiswal Abhimanyu Easwaran Shubman Gill Virat Kohli Devdutt Padikkal KL Rahul Rishabh Pant wicketkeeper Sarfaraz Khan Dhruv Jurel wicketkeeper Ravichandran Ashwin Ravindra Jadeja Mohammed Siraj Akash Deep Prasidh Krishna Harshit Rana Nitish Kumar Reddy Washington SundarWith ANI Inputs