Pat Cummins responds to calls for Marnus Labuschagne to be dropped after India thrash Australia in first Test

Pat Cummins has backed ‘class player’ Marnus Labuschagne to bounce backmost from his mediocre tally of signifier pursuing Australia’s 295-run decision to India successful the archetypal Test successful Perth.

Chasing a daunting 534-run target, Australia were dismissed for conscionable 238 successful the last league of time 4 to manus India a 1-0 vantage successful the five-match series.

India asserted themselves arsenic the overwhelming favourites for triumph aft a devastating spell of bowling successful the closing stages of the 3rd day, which reduced the hosts to 12-3.

And portion Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh rallied to notch scores of 89 and 47 respectively, Jasprit Bumrah and Nitish Kumar Reddy struck to region the 2 batters successful speedy succession, earlier Alex Carey and the little bid were toppled.

Cummins and Co volition look to regroup and gully level erstwhile the bid resumes astatine the Adelaide Oval connected December 6.

The touring broadside indispensable triumph 3 of the adjacent 4 contests against the Baggy Greens to unafraid themselves a spot successful a 3rd consecutive World Test Championship final.

Asked what went incorrect for Australia crossed the 4 days, Cummins replied: ‘Look, I deliberation it was a just fewer things.

‘I thought 150 placed america rather well. Obviously, the crippled sped up that nighttime of time one, they bowled terrifically good and enactment a dent into us.

‘Once the transportation started to dilatory down a bit, we weren’t arsenic good placed erstwhile we were backmost retired successful the tract and couldn’t get the breakthroughs.

‘But I thought they played truly good and conscionable not overmuch truly went our mode this game.’

An out-of-sorts Labuschagne managed scores of 2 and 3 successful Australia’s archetypal and 2nd innings respectively and determination are increasing calls for the 30-year-old to beryllium dropped.

The batter’s latest showing successful Perth means helium averages beneath 30 successful Test cricket since the commencement of past year’s Ashes, but his skipper is hopeful a instrumentality to signifier could beryllium astir the corner.

‘Marn, on with rather a fewer guys successful the team, didn’t person the week that we wanted,’ Cummins said erstwhile quizzed connected Labuschagne’s struggles.

‘It’s nary concealed however hard the batters, peculiarly Marn, enactment successful the nets and he’s ever trying to find those tiny marginal gains.

‘This week determination volition beryllium a batch of speech with the coaches around, maybe, his attack and what helium could beryllium doing differently.

‘We cognize he’s a people player. Him astatine his champion is 1 of the scariest propositions for absorption bowlers to vessel astatine truthful this week volition beryllium astir those conversations, get to Adelaide a small spot earlier and possibly bash an other time oregon 2 mentation starring into that 2nd Test.

‘But he’s done it implicit present earlier and he’s got a precise bully pink-ball grounds truthful I ever deliberation it’s looking backmost astatine past successes, erstwhile you’re astatine your best, is ever a beauteous bully mode to get backmost connected track.’

Cummins reserved peculiar praise for India’s stand-in skipper Bumrah, who finished with figures of 8-72 successful the match.

‘I thought helium bowled truly well. Obviously, he’s 1 of the champion successful the satellite and he’s ever going to beryllium a situation truthful we’ve got to travel up with immoderate ways to combat that,’ Cummins continued.

‘I thought, particularly, that time one, his spell and the spell of the Indian guys, made it truly tricky for our squad to navigate through.

‘So yeah, helium bowled good passim the game, similar helium does successful astir games.’

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