Ricky Ponting feels David Warner would wrestle to discover a place within the touring Ashes squad and his Test career may simply not end on his personal phrases. File.
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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting fears struggling David Warner runs the chance of lacking out on the Ashes collection and his Test career may end on a tragic be aware following his extended dry run with the bat.
Ponting feels Warner would wrestle to discover a place within the touring Ashes squad and his Test career may simply not end on his personal phrases.
Warner had a torrid tour of India, the place he scored 1, 10 and 15 in three innings earlier than returning dwelling with a fractured elbow.
The left-hander has struggled within the final England tour in 2019, averaging simply 9.5.
“I’ve heard him talk before about their cycle. This current cycle will finish after the World Test Championship, which is obviously the week before the first Ashes Test and I would think all going well that they want to get David through until the end of that Test match at least,” Ponting was quoted as saying by RSN Cricket.
“It’s up to him though. The only currency you have as a batsman is runs and if you’re not scoring any, you leave yourself open.
“It’s occurred to all of us, it occurred to me. When you get to a sure age and it appears like your kind is dropping off barely, then the knives are sharpened and it does not take lengthy,” he added.
Ponting feels Warner should have quit after scoring a double hundred in the Boxing Day Test against South Africa in Melbourne last summer, which was also his 100th match or after the next game at his home ground in Sydney.
“For him to end the way in which he deserves to end, the apparent factor for me was perhaps to pull the pin after Sydney. He obtained 200 in Melbourne, performed his one centesimal Test, performed his 101 Test in Sydney, his dwelling floor and perhaps end there,” he said.
“The final thing he deserved is to be away on a tour and get in to the center of a collection and get dropped and his career is over. That can be an terrible approach for him to end.
“He’s a driven little man, a pretty stubborn little bugger, so we’ll see how he goes.”
