Jasprit Bumrah cannot conjure magic every time the team gets out for a below-par score and that is exactly what happened here. India were all out in 44.1 overs, but barring Bumrah, others could not replicate a similar kind of success and that cost them dearly. The second innings was also the same story, except this time they were staring down a barrel (read the 157-run lead Australia had on them).

If you are not going to spend more than 81 overs in the middle across both innings (44.1 and 36.5), there is no way on earth you can come back into the contest. So when Rishabh Pant and Nitish K Reddy started day three, they were living on borrowed time. For them, to pull India out of that hole, they would have had to replicate something similar to Kolkata 2001 or Adelaide 2003. In the end, Pat Cummins took five wickets and Australia walked away with a win, levelling the series 1-1.

The good thing is that India has ample time to come back from this deficit in the five-match series. Their next stop is Brisbane and in less than a week, they will be on the field again. That could be the reason why Rohit is hopeful. “There’s a way for us to get back into the game. We need to find that within ourselves, how we need to do that. There are a lot of individuals in that dressing room who have played a lot of cricket, won a lot of games, have come back from difficult situations in the past. We hope that everyone stands up to that challenge and takes the team through whenever it’s required,” he said.

The next ten days will tell whether they did or we hear another “not good enough” quote from Rohit.