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Mitchell Johnson has criticised the Pat Cummins-led facet for missing successful mindset.© AFP
Former Australia pacer Mitchell Johnson has criticised the Pat Cummins-led facet for missing successful mindset within the 1st Take a look at in opposition to India in Perth. India beat Australia by 295 runs within the first Take a look at of a five-match collection to go 1-0 up within the collection. The legendary pacer desires Australia to indicate a bit extra combat within the the rest of the collection, saying that the hosts lacked depth in Perth. He additionally highlighted how children like Yashasvi Jaiswal and Harshit Rana received the psychological battle in opposition to the senior professionals within the Australian facet.
“As an outsider watching on, I want to see some fight from this Australian side. Not a debutant and a young opening batsman from India getting in the faces of our team on our own turf and sledging Mitchell Starc saying he’s bowling too slow. Let’s see some energy and intent with bat and ball, but even more so in the field where it was clearly lacking at Optus Stadium,” Johnson wrote in his column for the West Australian.
Nevertheless, Johnson urged Australia to not panic with 4 matches nonetheless left to be performed within the collection.
“The Border-Gavaskar series is far from over and it’s certainly not a time to panic. But Australia will need to put pressure on India early when the second Test gets underway at Adelaide Oval on Friday and keep it up or they could find the 1-0 deficit it hard to come back from. The Aussies were shown up in Perth and they will be feeling it as a team but have to move on quickly,” he added.
The second Take a look at, scheduled to happen from December 6 to 10 on the Adelaide Oval, will characteristic the day-night format below lights.
India captain Rohit Sharma and batter Shubman Gill will return to the facet after lacking the series-opener.
In the meantime, Australia might be with out injured stars Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Marsh. Beau Webster is more likely to make his debut whereas Scott Boland will exchange Hazlewood within the XI.
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