The next day, even Adam Gilchrist, part of the broadcasting team, spoke of "a potentially divided" Australian dressing room. At the post-match presentation at the Perth Stadium following India's 295-run win, the former keeper-batter asked skipper Pat Cummins if all was well in the dressing room. Cummins side-stepped the uncomfortable bouncer, but that Gilchrist publicly asked the captain the question as a follow-up to Hazlewood's response the previous day has fuelled speculation that all may not be hunky-dory in the Australian camp. Discontent in an Australian camp when the players are sporting the baggy green or their yellow-green limited overs colours is extremely un-Australian. In the past, even if a small group of players appeared disgruntled, they ensured they pulled themselves up and gave their best shot during a crucial Test series or a World Cup. Even in the all-conquering teams led by Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting in the early 2000s, the great Shane Warne apparently had problems with then head coach John Buchanan. But that never really reflected in either Warne's or the team's on-field performances. Even when they lost a game or two, they rarely got hammered by the opposition. Times, and cricket, have since changed and hence the poser: Do Australian cricketers too no longer swear by the baggy green? "In Australia, the cricketers are inclined and usually relate more to the states/clubs they represent in domestic competitions like the Sheffield Shield rather than the national team. You might as well say there's a fair amount of intense rivalry between the states. "It's not like how it is in India, where the cricketers are strongly connected with the BCCI. Maybe it has got to do with the cultural and demographic matters in this country," a Cricket Australia (CA) insider, speaking under cover of anonymity, told The Telegraph on Wednesday. In what appears to be difficult times for Australian cricket, Travis Head, a pillar of the current batting group, has rallied behind skipper Cummins as he quashed conjecture about fissures in the dressing room. "I think people have picked the bones out of a comment on the back of a poor week, which is fine," Head, the only batsman to show some resistance for Australia in Perth, told 7NEWS. "It's okay to be critical. We understand that. We stuck together, had some good conversations but definitely, no fractions. "We've got to play better. Nothing's guaranteed in this game, but if we work hard, no reason why we can't turn it around." Pressure on Smith Steve Smith's rough patch, too, has compounded problems for Australia. Smith, who averages a shade over 56, looked shabby in both innings of the opening Test. His last innings of note was his unbeaten 91 in Brisbane against the West Indies earlier this year, though that too came in a losing cause. If the Australian batting maestro doesn't get his mojo back in the remainder of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, his prospects of featuring in next year's home Ashes may get slimmer. "The Sydney Test against India (from January 3) could well be Smith's last then," the CA insider said.