Before India vs Australia clash, Ricky Ponting, a prolific batsman and a quick-witted captain in his days for Australia, feels the Indian team will be unclear about their batting order. As Virat is set to return back home after playing the First Test match.<\/p>\n
The Indian Skipper has been granted a paternity leave to be with his wife for the birth of their first child. On what will be a further cause of worry for the Indians he further added \u201cYou\u2019d think Ajinkya Rahane will take over the captaincy. which will put extra pressure on him, and they\u2019ve got to find someone to bat at that really important No.4 spot.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Indian middle-order crisis hasn\u2019t been completely solved yet. Many cricket pundits believe, it was the reason why India failed at ICC Cricket World Cup 2019.<\/p>\n The former Australian great feels, India will struggle in a first Test match as well and said \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019ll be clear in their own mind, even now, what their batting order will look like for the first Test. ..Who\u2019s going to open, who\u2019ll bat at four when Kohli goes?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n On December 17, India will play the first Test match at Adelaide Oval, with pink Kookaburra ball. However, there are reports of a possible transfer of venue to MCG or SCG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before India vs Australia clash, Ricky Ponting, a prolific batsman and a quick-witted captain in his days for Australia, feels\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":24575,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[995,1052],"class_list":["post-1464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-cricket-australia","tag-ricky-pointing"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPonting while speaking to www.cricket.au said \u201cIndia will feel that pressure without Kohli there (for three Tests)<\/strong><\/em>
\nor his batting and leadership, that\u2019ll put all sorts of pressure on different players.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n