Veteran Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting believes that Indian batsmen are weak against the best spinners. Due to this, they had to face a 3-0 series defeat against New Zealand recently. He said that the skill level of Indian batsmen playing against spinners is not the same as before.

India's charismatic batsman Virat Kohli is in poor form in the longer format and has dropped out of the top-20 list in the Test batting rankings for the first time in 10 years. However, Ponting believes that Kohli will perform well in the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy.

Where India needs to win at least four matches to enter the 2025 World Test Championship final. I saw a stat about Virat the other day. It said that he has scored only two (three) Test centuries in the last five years. It didn't seem right to me, but if it is true, it is a matter of concern.

There is probably no other toptop-ordertsman playing international cricket who has scored only two Test match centuries in five years. I have said this about Virat before. You never question the greats of the game. There is no doubt about it, he is a great player of the game.

He loves playing against Australia. In fact, I, know he loves playing against Australia. As I said his record (in Australia) is very good. If there is a time for him to change that, it will be in this series. So I won't be surprised to see Virat scoring runs in the first match.