Former chief of selection committee Dilip Vengsarkar has lashed out at Test captain Anil Kumble for letting the team down.

Before the match, Kumble was not 100 per cent fit. "An unfit Kumble is letting the team down", Vengsarkar said in an interview.

"If Kumble could not bowl more overs then he should have not played", Vengsarkar said and added that the skipper should have earlier come clean to the selectors on his fitness.

Vengsarkar also criticised Kumble for not allowing Virender Sehwag to bowl more overs.

The veteran Indian legspinner was out of the ground for most of the fourth day and the team clearly missed a fourth bowler after Ishant Sharma, Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh put Australia in a spot of bother.