Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting praised the disciplined and spectacular batting of lower-order Washington Sundar and Shardul Thakur as the Indian team survived the fourth and decisive Test of the series. In response to Australia’s first innings score of 369, the Indian team’s score was 186 for six wickets at a time. He managed to score 336 runs in an innings. Ricky Ponting, a former Kangaroo player, praised the bold performance of both players.

Ponting told cricket dot com u that the enthusiasm and patience he showed during the batting was great. He did not take the risk. That partnership is great, what the Indian team needed at the time. With some testing experience they were able to do that. Ponting said Australia’s bowling was not aggressive and fast bowlers had to use more shotpitch balls against India’s lower order.

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“I don’t think he was too aggressive. He didn’t bowl more shot balls,” he said. He allowed Indian batsmen to freeze. He bowled the batsmen as they wished.

India added 99 in the first session and 92 in the second session and lost two wickets in the meantime. In the third session, the tail batsmen continued to fight. In this session India managed to add 83 runs for the loss of four wickets. Australia’s Josh Haaswood took five wickets for 57 runs. Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins each picked up two wickets.

Shardul said the coach was motivated by his innings to play better