Harare, July 26 -- Zimbabwe captain Sikandar Raza admitted he has let the team down with his batting after the 90-run defeat to India in the second T20I.

While praising the positive intent shown by the openers, he said Zimbabwe's inexperience and poor shot selection proved costly.

Raza has endured a lean run in T20 cricket, registering three successive single-digit scores. He managed just 3 against Bangladesh before being dismissed for 4 and a duck in the first two T20Is against India.

"Yeah, we were going to go for it anyway, and if you look at our openers as well, I think they gave us that sort of a start we needed. Unfortunately, I think it all comes down to sometimes inexperience, [and] sometimes the shot selection, where we're let...