Jason Gillespie sticks boot into Cricket Australia after legend spotted celebrating Aussie downfall

Interim Pakistan coach Jason Gillespie has criticised Cricket Australia for a lack of promotion of the recent ODI series and revealed the Aussie "flaws" his side exposed in their shock triumph. The Australian cricket great oversaw Pakistan's stunning 2-1 ODI series win that was decided on Sunday in Perth as the tourists rolled Australia for just 140 runs off 31.5 overs, before cruising to an easy eight-wicket win.

The Aussies had clearly prioritised the five-Test Border-Gavaskar series against India that starts in Perth on November 22 after resting Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Steve Smith and Marnus Labushagne for the third and final game. Gillespie says part of him understands the move from CA ahead of a massive Test series, but couldn't understand why the governing body didn't do more to promote the ODI series.

"To be honest I pretty much saw no promotion of our one-day series by Cricket Australia, which was a bit of a surprise," the former Australia fast bowler told The Age. "It’s pretty obvious that they’re prioritising the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series against India, because I saw no promotion of this series."

"We knew that there was probably going to be some change, knowing what Australia have coming up. You always thought at the back of your mind were they going to send the big quicks over to Perth to play one 50-over game. We anticipated that, and that's the nature of modern cricket... Australia chose to do that. It was pretty obvious that this three-match one-day series wasn’t the highest of priorities for Australia."

Gillespie faced backlash after being spotted in behind-the-scenes footage in the Triple M commentary booth, celebrating the fall of Aussie wickets during the second match of the ODI series. But considering he'd taken charge of the Pakistan side for the series, it was understandable that the Aussie cricket great was happy to celebrate the success of the tourists - even if it did come against his own countrymen.

Jason Gillespie and Pakistan expose Aussie batting 'flaws'

And Gillespie revealed that he helped plot the downfall of the Aussies after identifying "flaws" in their batting approach that Pakistan ruthlessly exposed. Gillespie said it was clear to him that Smith and Lubuschagne were the only two Aussie batters willing to play an anchor role and sensed that the visitors had a massive chance to spring a shock during their absence in game three.

"What we saw in this series is our bowling exposed some flaws in the Australian batting," Gillespie told The Age. Speaking on SENQ Breakfast on Tuesday, Gillespie elaborated on that point to explain the significance of Smith and Labuschagne's absence for Australia and the 'gung-ho' attitude of their batters throughout the series.

"I thought the Australian batting order could be a bit vulnerable... The way the Australian team bats, it's all gung-ho," he told SEN. "The first couple of games they had Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne who are probably the two anchors and then around them they just had guys going out looking to score better than a run a ball.

"We thought our best chance of impacting against Australia was to use our fast bowlers and in the first two games they had Steve Smith and Marnus and we felt that they were going to try and be the anchors while the rest of the batting order is all about aggression and trying to score at a strike rate of more than 150. We just knew if we bowled and bowled fast... we could have an impact and that's certainly how it panned out. In the third one-dayer, without Steve Smith and Marnus we felt that we were massively in the game."

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Gillespie's comments follow widespread backlash against Australia's batting in the ODI series, with Glenn Maxwell and Marcus Stoinis coming under plenty of fire after Sunday's decider. Pakistan's series win marked a first in Australia for 22 years and the first time an Aussie player has not reached half-century during a three-match ODI series on home soil.