Aus VS Ind: Ricky Ponting expresses his opinion on pitch criticism

Australia were skittled by Team India for just 177 runs on Thursday in the opening Test match at Nagpur.

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Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting was not pleased with Australia's unfortunate circumstances.

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Ponting, whose team had last won a Test series in India, highlighted the Nagpur pitch conditions in the ICC evaluation.

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"India's best chance of beating Australia is to prepare turning wickets."

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"The only difference with somewhere like India to Australia is, in Australia the players actually have no say over how the wickets are prepared at all," said Ponting.

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