KL Rahul hopes Team India will keep up the good work for the rest of the ongoing Australia tour after a successful T20I series, which the visitors won 2-1.

“The ODI and T20I series have been a learning curve for all of us. We were challenged in every game and it was important that we stuck together as a group and kept believing in each other.

“We hope that we can improve and keep getting better as individuals and also a team in the matches to come,” Rahul, the vice-captain during the white-ball matches versus Australia, said in a video posted on BCCI’s Twitter handle.

Rahul also revealed the secret behind India’s brilliant comeback in the limited-overs matches. After losing the first two ODIs, he said, India treated the remaining four games as a new series.

“It’s never easy coming to Australia, losing two games and having to make a comeback. What we said after the first two one-dayers was that we are going to treat the remaining four games as a new series and try and win them.”

Terming the series as “challenging”, Rahul said India were tested in every aspect of the game. “It certainly was challenging, but we accepted the challenges and backed ourselves,” he added.

Hardik Pandya, who excelled with the bat in both ODIs and T20Is and was declared Man of the Series in the 20-over format, dedicated the award to his son Agastya.

“I would like to dedicate this award to my son and my family back home because they have been a great support to me,” he said. “It has been an absolute team performance. I am happy to see that we have won the series where we haven’t seen any individual brilliance. Multiple people stepping up in different situations.”