Ashes 2023: The Australian cricket workforce edged previous hosts England in a nail-biter Ashes opener at Edgbaston in Birmingham to start the sequence on a excessive observe. Pat Cummins‘ workforce displayed nice batting abilities towards Ben Stokes’ England to seek out the 281-run goal by 2 wickets. However, a pair of Aussie batters had been removed from their greatest and one amongst them was the present World No.3 batter Marnus Labuschagne.
Meanwhile, former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has shared a vital piece of advice for Labuschagne forward of the Lord’s Test on Wednesday. Ponting has recommended the Aussie batter return to fundamentals and supplied him one-on-one contact.Â
“I’ll wait for them to come and ask me. It’s not my place, I’m not one of the coaches, I’m just a past player that’s sitting back and analysing what a lot of these guys are doing,” Ponting mentioned within the ICC Review.
“But I would love to meet up with him (Labuschagne) and have a chat about his batting as a result of I feel what I’ve seen over the past couple of weeks, so far as I’m involved, I feel he is overcomplicating issues just a little bit.
Labuschagne ought to belief in what made him World No.3
Meanwhile, Ponting has acknowledged that Labuschagne ought to maintain his belief in what has introduced him this far in Test cricket. “I feel he has to belief and imagine in what’s made him the No. 2-ranked Test batsman for the final couple of years and return to trusting that. I might really inform him to watch some video of when he is really performed his greatest, keep in mind these issues and do this over again.