PERTH, Jan 19: Australia are confident they will regroup from the 72-run defeat by India on Saturday to win next week’s fourth and final Test in Adelaide.

“Australian teams historically have been able to bounce back,” captain Ricky Ponting told a news conference. “If we lose a game or have things not go our way we can turn things around pretty quickly.

“That’s what our whole focus will be now. We played some great cricket in Melbourne and Sydney. We’ve let ourselves down a little bit in this game but it’s about how we bounce back from that now.”

Ponting further said that the visitors deserved to win the third Test here and keep alive their hopes of squaring the series 2-2 in Adelaide but warned Australia would learn from their errors.

He said the home team were not at their best at the WACA, misjudging the pace of the pitch and making a string of fundamental mistakes.

“It was a tough four days, India deserved to win the game the way they did. They outplayed us for the majority of the game,” stated Ponting.

“A lot of our skills have let us down more than anything this week. I thought our preparation was great and it was just little critical moments in this match we faltered and it’s been a long time since we’ve done that.”—Reuters