New Zealand skipper Kane Williamson on Tuesday said that his team did not have a mental block while facing Ravichandran Ashwin but crumbled under off-spinner's quality bowling during 0-3 Test series whitewash against India.
"Not a mental block, more quality of his bowling in these conditions (pitch) which turn a lot. Sure spinners enjoy that and Ashwin is best at exploiting those conditions, and shown that for a long time. He has shown his class, deserved to be man of series," he said.
Williamson admitted that his young team learnt a lot while playing in these conditions and facing world's top spinners. The captain admitted that India managed to put up a better show as a unit during the series. "They exploited the conditions better than us, very patient with bat. Batting was not easy when our time came. (India won) not just because conditions had deteriorated but the very good bowling attack they have," he said. "Unfortunately we couldn't put together complete performance. Not lack of effort, but India were the better side and we need to learn a lot form them as a young side is getting exposed to these conditions."
Terming the performance of his team in the Test series as "very disappointing", Williamson said, "Going into the match, we wanted to put together more complete performance, wasn't the case. Once again some fighting contributions with bat, boys tried really hard in field on wicket not offering much initially."