Australia legend Geoff Lawson has held the captain responsible Pat Cummins‘ Lack of knowledge of spinning tracks and assistant coaches Daniel VettoriInadequate inputs for the team’s poor performance in India. India have won the first two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with their spin-bowling duo inside three days. Ravichandran Ashwin And Ravindra Jadeja doing maximum damage. Australia lost the first Test in Nagpur by an innings and 132 runs, while the tourists fared slightly better in the second match in New Delhi but the result was the same – a six-wicket victory for India.
Lawson, one of the most feared Australian fast bowlers in Tests and ODIs in the 1980s, said Cummins played little Sheffield Shield cricket and this also contributed to the captain’s lack of strategy on turning tracks.
Lawson said on SEN Radio, “Kammo (Cummins) has very little experience of captaining on spinning wickets, very little Sheffield Shield your captain plays in the contemporary game, and he certainly doesn’t play on spinning wickets.”
“So where does he learn to do all those creative and adaptive things you need him to do? He doesn’t, he just gets thrown in the deep end and we watch a lot of videos and decide.” With the Border-Gavaskar trophy being successfully retained, India would look to win the third Test in Indore from March 1 to secure a World Test Championship final berth.
Lawson said that the Australian bowlers had no strategy on how to break partnerships between the lower-order Indian batsmen Akshar Patel and Ashwin, who contributed to the hosts gaining a psychological edge over the visitors in the second Test.
Axar scored 84 and Jadeja 70 in the first Test, while the former scored 74 in the second Test and enjoyed a fruitful partnership with Ashwin (34) to take the initiative from Cummins.
“When Axar Patel (Ravi) is partnering with Ashwin (in the second Test), we’re not sure how we’re going to break them, those two partnerships have cost us two Test matches,” Lawson said. Said .
Lawson also took aim at former New Zealand spinner and current Australia assistant coach Vettori, questioning his input regarding the team’s tweakers.
“The guy who probably isn’t doing as much as he should is Daniel Vettori who is one of the great left arm orthodox bowlers in the world but he should be advising how we are going to bowl and how we are going to bowl. Are.” against that kind of bowling,” Lawson said.
“It seems he’s escaped a bit of attention here because when I see shots of the dressing room I think, ‘what’s Vettori’s input here, he’s someone who was a great slow ball’. Maybe he has There should be the most input.”
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