India vs Australia | Hosts not showing any desperation at all, says Ricky Ponting

India vs Australia | Hosts not showing any desperation at all, says Ricky Ponting

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Ricky Ponting has stated that Nathan Lyon’s dismissal on day four says a lot about the Australian players’ mindset as the hosts seem to lack any desperation at all. The Australian team has been forced by India to follow-on in the fourth match of the series after the hosts were all-out for 300.

The Australian team has been asked by visitors India to follow-on in their second innings at the hosts fell short of the Indian first innings score by 322 runs. As the performance by the Australian team gets from bad to worse former Australian captain Ricky Pointing has criticized the current Australian team of not showing any desperation.

"That dismissal actually says a lot to me about the mindset of this Australian team at the moment. There's no desperation there whatsoever," Ponting said on Seven, one of the host broadcasters. "Why wouldn't they have had a look at that? They've still got the two reviews up their sleeve. There had to be some sort of doubt in that."

Nathan Lyon was caught napping in front of the wickets by Kuldeep Yadav who is playing his first match of the series. What surprised Ponting was that the batsman set out straight to the pavilion after being given out. Hence Ponting felt that the onfield batsmen should have first discussed among themselves and should have taken a review just in case the umpire might have been wrong.

"Given out straight away and Mitchell Starc just puts his hand out and says 'oh well, it's not me, it's up to you to make [a call]'. Well, unfortunately, when you're out there together it's a partnership. You've got to do whatever you can to try and save your mate. And there was absolutely none of that there. And as it's shown already that would have been given not out. Slack and not desperate enough."

Ponting also criticised Mitchell Starc, who he believed was standing too wide of the crease to assist Nathan Lyon to make any decision about taking the review.

"You can see where Mitchell Starc is standing at the non-striker's end. One, look how wide he's standing. There's no need to be that wide in the first place. Nathan Lyon looks up, 'Oh what do you reckon?' 'Oh, I don't know mate. Yeah, I don't know. But let's not bother looking. We've only got two up our sleeve.'"

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