Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting praised India’s “fantastic” pace attack but feels their spinners struggle a bit. India’s pace attack comprised of Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami and Ishant Sharma, Umesh Yadav. However, he said Indian spinners will struggle in Australian conditions.

“I’m taking ours every day of the week. India’s is fantastic; Bumrah and Shami have been amazing for the last couple of years and then you put Umesh Yadav into the equation with Ishant Sharma, they’ve got some very, very good fast bowlers,” Ponting was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.

“And when you put (spinners Ravichandran) Ashwin and (Ravindra) Jadeja in there, their attack is very good. But their spinners struggle more in Australia, Nathan Lyon has a much better record in Australia than the Indian spinners have,” he added.

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Australia recently thrashed Pakistan by 2-0 in the two-match Test series to move to the second position in the World Test Championship rankings behind India. India have recently won the series against Bangladesh. Ricky Pointing said Australia have variation in their attack, which helps them over other teams.

“And I love the variation we have with Mitchell Starc in the line-up; that left-armer just provides a little bit of something different,” Ponting shared. “And he’s bowling as well as I’ve ever seen him, so there’s some even better signs for this Australian attack.”