IND vs AUS: Rohit Sharma 'rubbishes' Ravi Shastri's claim - 'Ruthless not overconfident'

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India captain Rohit Sharma has hit back at Ravi Shastri for his "overconfident' remark after India's nine-wicket defeat in the third Test match in Indore.

Addressing the press ahead of the fourth and final Test in Ahmedabad, Rohit rubbished his former coach's claim, saying that people "on the outside" are unaware of the talks going on in the dressing room. The 35-year-old said planned on being ruthless and not overconfident.

"Honestly, when you win two games and people on the outside feel that we are overconfident, it's absolutely rubbish because you want to do your best in all four games.

"You don't want to stop by winning two games. It is as simple as that. Obviously, all these guys, when they talk about being overconfident and all and especially when they are not part of dressing room, they do not know what sort of talk happens in the dressing room," Rohit said on the eve of the Ahmedabad Test.

"We want to do best in all games and if it seems overconfident, or anything like that for outsiders, it doesn't really matter to us," said Rohit.

"Because Ravi has been himself in this dressing room and he knows what sort of mindset we have when we play.

"So yeah, it's about being ruthless and not being overconfident. Ruthless is the word that comes to every cricketer's mind, not to give an inch to opposition when they are touring abroad.

"We have also experienced that when we have toured outside, the opposition will never let you come into the game or series, and that is the mindset we have as well," added Rohit.

India won the first two Test matches in Nagpur and Delhi to take an unassailable 2-0 lead and retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. However, they were thrashed in the third Test in Indore after opting to bat first. Post the defeat, Shastri had claimed that India were complacent and overconfident.

"This is what a little complacency, a little bit of overconfidence can do when you take things for granted, you drop guard and this game will bring you down. I think it was a combination of all these things when you actually cast your mind back to the first innings, see some of the shots played, see some of the overeagerness to try to dominate in these conditions. You reflect back, take a step back or two to analyse," Shastri had said on air.

India would be aiming to win the series 3-1 and book a spot in the final of World Test Championship (WTC) by beating Australia in the series-decider at the Narendra Modi Stadium from Thursday, March 9.