IND vs AUS 2nd Test: The second Test between India and Australia will be played in Adelaide from December 6. This match will be played with a pink ball. After the defeat by 295 runs in Perth, the Australian team is being criticized from all sides. Especially some batsmen are being trolled a lot. Meanwhile, former captain Ricky Ponting has predicted Australia’s playing 11 for the Adelaide Test.
Ricky Ponting, while talking about Australia’s performance in the Perth Test on ICC Review, said that the host team’s performance was not good in Perth. Despite this, I do not want any change in the Australian playing-11 for the Adelaide Test. Ponting said, ‘I will stay with the same team. I think you have to show faith in champion players and many of the people we are talking about in this team have been champion players. Maybe not for a short time, but they have proven their ability on the big stage.’
IND vs AUS Ponting predicts Australians playing-11
Top-order mainstay and former No. 1 ranked Test batsman Marnus Labuschagne faced scrutiny for his performance in the first Test. The right-handed batsman’s average in Test cricket has dropped significantly since scoring two half-centuries against Pakistan in January. Labuschagne scored just 2 and three runs in two innings in Perth.
Ponting said about Labuschagne, ‘He really has to find a way to change it. Marnus looked the most erratic of all the batsmen in Perth. Yes, it was high-quality bowling on a difficult wicket, but he needs to find a way to change it.’
‘Labuschagne has to take an aggressive approach
Labuschagne played a key role in Australia’s maiden World Test Championship title at the Oval last year and Ponting said he and his fellow batsmen are facing a mental challenge while trying to regain their best form. Ponting stressed the importance of adopting an aggressive mindset, especially against world-class bowlers like Bumrah, who devastated the Australian line-up with a five-wicket haul in the first innings.
Ricky Ponting’s Australia playing 11 for the Adelaide Test
Usman Khawaja, Nathan McSweeney, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Mitchell Marsh, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Josh Hazlewood.
