Geoff Lawson blames Pat Cummins' inexperience for Australia's defeats, questions Daniel Vettori's role

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Australian team led by Pat Cummins is facing a lot of flak after the visitors lost the first two Tests of the four-match series inside three days on the turning tracks in India. Hosts India retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after two matches, with their spin-bowling duo of Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja doing the maximum damage to the Aussies.On Wednesday, Australia great Geoff Lawson has blamed captain Cummins' inexperience in leading a side on spinning tracks and assistant coach Daniel Vettori's inadequate inputs for the team's woeful performance.Australia lost the opening Test in Nagpur by an innings and 132 runs, while the second match in New Delhi saw the tourists fare a little better but the outcome was the same -- a six-wicket win for India.

Australia spinner Ashton Agar was released from the Test squad touring India and has flown home to play cricket for Western Australia in the closing stages of the domestic season, national selector Tony Dodemaide said on Wednesday.

Lawson, one of the most feared Australian pace bowlers in the 1980s, said that Cummins has played so little Sheffield Shield cricket and that has also contributed to the captain's lack of strategising on turning tracks."Cummo (Cummins) has so little experience captaining on spinning wickets, in the contemporary game your captain plays very little Sheffield Shield, and he certainly doesn't play on spinning wickets," Lawson said on SEN Radio."So where does he learn to do all the creative and adaptable things you need to do? He doesn't, he just gets thrown in the deep end and we watch a lot of videos and make decisions," Lawson said.Lawson added that the Australian bowlers had no