Frustrated Australia [Images] captain Ricky Ponting [Images] took a swipe at India's negativity after the first Test ended in a draw on Monday.

"We were the only ones in the game trying to take the game forward. We played aggressive cricket. I am not surprised by the way they played; the Indian team do play a lot of drawn games," Ponting told a news conference.

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India clung on for a draw at 177 for 4 after being set an unlikely winning target of 299 on a difficult pitch.

"We thought we had a really good contest on our hands today," Ponting added.

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"We got some extra runs we thought we might have needed. We gave it our best shot with the ball but we just didn't create enough opportunities today.

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"We played good cricket, there is no doubt about that; we dominated this Test match pretty much from the second or third over on the first day.

"We could not win it at the end, but it was a pretty good start to the series for us."

Sachin Tendulkar [Images] top-scored with 49 in India's second innings, dismissed 14 runs short of equalling Brian Lara's [Images] world runs record.

India paceman Zaheer Khan [Images] said Australia's failure to force a victory would put them under more pressure for the remainder of the series.

The second Test in the four-match series starts in Mohali on Friday.

"They know they can't take our 20 wickets. They couldn't get me and Bhajji (Harbhajan Singh [Images]) out, what else do you want? They are under pressure, we know that," man of the match Zaheer said.

"On a fifth day wicket their spinners couldn't do us any harm. That tells everyone what their spin attack is all about," said the left-arm seamer, who took five wickets in the first innings.

"Even their pacers, they didn't look like getting a wicket, especially on the fifth day on a wicket like this."

Zaheer and Harbhajan scored fifties and shared in an 80-run stand in the first innings which rescued India who then narrowed down the first-innings deficit to just 70 runs.