The legendary Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting revealed a shocking supply from England Cricket Board (ECB) for a head coach position previous to Brendon McCullum’s appointment. Ponting revealed that he was the primary particular person ECB approached for an enormous job after Chris Silverwood’s sacking in February 2023.Â
England cricket went by some large modifications in administration after their embarrassing 4-0 defeat to Australia within the earlier Ashes. The former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum changed Chris Silverwood as a head coach whereas Ben Stokes was appointed as the brand new Test group captain after Joe Root‘s choice to step down. Rob Key changed Ashley Giles as the brand new ECB director and rapidly overhauled English cricket.Â
Ponting mentioned that Key instantly made a number of calls relating to the top coach position. But the previous Australian skipper defined that he was not prepared for a full-time worldwide teaching job.Â
“I actually got asked before Brendon took the job – there you go, you guys might be the first to find that out,” Ponting informed the Guerilla Cricket podcast. “I did take some calls from Robert Key as soon as he took over that job.”
“But I’m just not ready for a full-time international coaching job, where I am at in my life. Having travelled as much as I have, with young kids now, I just don’t want to be away as much as I was. And even talking to Brendon, his family is only just arriving today. When you have got kids that are in school, moving them around, that’s not what I want to do,” the previous Australian batter mentioned.
However, McCullum’s appointment is doing wonders for England cricket. McCullum and Stokes adopted an aggressive model of cricket in Test and that has helped them win 11 of 14 matches to this point. England are but to lose a Test collection since McCullum’s arrival however are trailing the continued Ashes 2023 by 0-1 at residence.
