It will not be a walkover for India: Ponting

India completed a crushing victory over Australia by a record margin of 320 runs in the second Test to seize a 1-0 lead in the four-match series.

But Ricky Ponting, who has been speaking exclusively to NDTV through this series, has come up with a warning to India, said the Border-Gavaskar series won't be a walk-over for the host.

"Too early to talk about decline won't go down without fight. nothing is putting more pressure on us than the way we are playing," Ponting said.

Australia have lost experienced stars Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, and Shane Warne to international retirement.

"A series win is well within our reach, it won't be a walkover for India, we can't fill in shoes of Justin Langer, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne," Australian skipper said.

"Mike Hussey has been our most consistent batsman in the tour so far, we need our experienced players to play as well as they can. So, the younger players have something to look up to. This is team capable of winning this Test series. we don't care what others are saying," he said.

Ponting also played down a spat with pace spearhead Brett Lee on the fourth morning after the bowler, who has struggled in the series, had been denied a bowl throughout the session.

The Australian skipper said he had told Lee he would not bowl first up, to take the pace off and deny easy runs to Indian as they looked to declare their second innings.

"It doesn't bother me, too much was made of it, Brett understood why he hadn't bowled in the opening session, nothing is putting pressure on us other than the way we're playing our cricket, skipper said.