Cummins’ lack of understanding of spinning tracks has contributed to Australian defeats, says Lawson

Australian nice Geoff Lawson has blamed captain Pat Cummins’ lack of understanding of spinning tracks and assistant coach Daniel Vettori’s insufficient inputs for the crew’s woeful efficiency in India.

India has gained the primary two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy inside three days, with its spin-bowling duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja doing the utmost injury.

Australia misplaced the opening Test in Nagpur by an innings and 132 runs, whereas the second match in New Delhi noticed the vacationers faring a bit higher, however the consequence was the identical – a six-wicket win for India.

Lawson, some of the feared Australian tempo bowlers in Tests and ODIs within the Eighties, added that Cummins has performed so little Sheffield Shield cricket, and that has additionally contributed to the captain’s lack of strategising on turning tracks.

“Cummo (Cummins) has so little experience captaining on spinning wickets, in the contemporary game your captain plays very little Sheffield Shield, and he certainly doesn’t play on spinning wickets,” Lawson mentioned on SEN Radio.

“So where does he learn to do all the creative and adaptable things you need to do? He doesn’t, he just gets thrown in the deep end and we watch a lot of videos and make decisions.” With the Border-Gavaskar Trophy efficiently retained, India will look to win the third Test in Indore from March 1 to safe a World Test Championship ultimate berth.

Lawson mentioned the Australian bowlers had no technique on how one can break the partnership between lower-order India batters Axar Patel and Ashwin, which contributed to the hosts gaining a psychological edge over the guests within the second Test.

Axar scored 84 and Jadeja 70 within the first Test, whereas the previous smashed 74 within the second Test and loved a fruitful partnership with Ashwin (34) to take the initiative away from Cummins’ aspect.

“When Axar Patel (is) having a partnership with (Ravi) Ashwin (in the second Test), we’re not sure how we are going about breaking them down, those couple of partnerships have cost us two Test matches,” added Lawson.

Lawson additionally aimed toward former New Zealand spinner and the present Australia assistant coach Vettori, questioning his inputs to the crew’s tweakers.

“The man who’s probably not copping 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 on how we’re going to bowl and how we’re going to play against that sort of bowling,” Lawson mentioned.

“He seems to have 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 the man who was a great slow ball’. He should perhaps be having more input than most,” added Lawson.