The legendary Allan Border feels Pat Cummins had a lot to worry about as the series against India was his "first real test as captain" and in the process under-bowled himself in the second Test in Delhi.
Australia conceded the four-match series for the Border Gavaskar Trophy after losing the opening two Tests in Nagpur and Delhi.
Pat Cummins, who had faced just one defeat as captain before coming to India, was the sole quick in the Australian playing XI in the six-wicket loss in Delhi. He bowled just 13 overs in the first innings and didn바카라t bowl at all in India바카라s second essay.
"To me, the fast bowler, it's always fraught with danger," Border told SEN Radio.
"I thought Pat grossly under-bowled himself in that Test match.
"There were opportunities when things were starting to go stray, particularly in the Indian first innings when we had them on the ropes and they formed a good partnership, a couple of blasts from him running in and bowling some short stuff for two or three overs...."
Australia had reduced India to 139 for 7 before Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin shared a 114-run stand to take India to just one run short of the visiting team's first innings total.
바카라There are other guys out on the field I suppose who could go to the captain and say, 바카라mate, why don바카라t you have a bowl바카라?바카라 Border said.
바카라But I just thought this is Pat바카라s first real test as a captain, the rest has been plain sailing, you go to the sub-continent and all of a sudden you get tested out in all sorts of areas.
바카라He바카라s worried about lots of different things, he forgot about himself bowling I think. That바카라s what can happen in those situations when your premier fast bowler is your captain.바카라
However, Border was also sympathetic towards Cummins.
"There is a lot going on, even if you바카라re the captain in those situations and you바카라re a batter. People don바카라t really appreciate how tough it is, it바카라s a really different place to play the game in the sub-continent,바카라 he explained.
바카라You바카라ve got to have your wits about you, that바카라s for sure바카라 when it바카라s not going right and it바카라s going south, it goes south very quickly.바카라
Former wicketkeeper Ian Healy felt Cummins lost the "mind power" to set the field properly in the second innings.
바카라Then the mental stress that바카라s involved in getting your field right, he didn바카라t seem to have that in the last innings.
바카라He still had men on the boundary instead of extra catchers around the bat바카라 that takes a lot of mind power to keep it all together thinking about that and (bowling changes).바카라
Pat Cummins has flown back home from the tour of India due to a "serious family illness" following the second Test. He is expected to return to India for the remaining two games of the Border-Gavaskar trophy in Indore and Ahmedabad.
