Australian cricket legend Brett Lee has defended captain Pat Cummins for attending a concert in Sydney while his team was losing a one-day international series on the other side of the country.

Cricket Australia has been taken to task by fans and former players over the decision to run out a B-team in the third and deciding ODI against Pakistan on Sunday.

Pakistan easily rolled the hosts to win the series 2-1 and get the summer off to a nightmare start for the Aussies.

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While his team was losing the deciding match, Cummins was posting snaps of he and wife Becky at a Coldplay gig in Sydney.

It left a sour taste in the mouths of some who believed he should have been leading the men’s team in what was a series deciding match.

But Lee has no issue with it.

“Nothing wrong with that,” Lee told Nine’s Today on Tuesday.

“I was there (at Coldplay) as well and it was absolutely brilliant.

“If you’ve got a day off, go to Coldplay, why not?”

Cummins was far from the only big-name player rested from the ODI decider on Sunday.

Cricket Australia opted to rest most of the Test players from the match in order to give them a break before the Test series against India begins.

But the first match – ironically also in Perth – does not start until 12 days after the third ODI.

Former Aussie captain Michael Clarke was one former player who took aim at the decision to send a second-string side out against a quality Pakistan outfit.

“I’m just a bit confused… so 11 days between now and the first Test (in Perth), why can’t the Aussie boys who are part of this Test series play in the one-dayer?” Clarke said on Sky Sports Radio’s The Big Sports Breakfast on Monday.

“If Australia had won the first two games, then you can understand why they rest their big fish, but it was series on the line.

“You can’t expect the fans to want to come and watch one-day cricket.

“We are bagging one-day cricket, no one is turning up, hasn’t got the interest.

“I feel like we obviously don’t care about losing that series.

“If you’re not going to care, we’re not going to care.”

Many pundits have long been of the belief one-day cricket will eventually die off to accommodate only Tests and Twenty20 in an ever-expanding global schedule.