Australian great Geoff Lawson has blamed captain Pat Cummins’s lack of knowledge of spinning tracks and assistant coach Daniel Vettori’s inadequate inputs for the team’s woeful performance in India. India have won the first two Tests of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy inside three days, with their spin-bowling duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja doing the maximum damage.

Australia lost the opening Test in Nagpur by an innings and 132 runs, while the second match in New Delhi saw the tourists faring a little better, but the outcome was the same—a six-wicket win for India. Lawson, one of the most feared Australian pace bowlers in Tests and ODIs in the 1980s, added that Cummins has played so little Sheffield Shield cricket and that has also contributed to the captain’s lack of strategising on turning tracks.