Ricky Ponting bills 22-year-old youngster to replace David Warner in Australia’s T20I squad

The former Australia captain Ricky Ponting feels that Australia have already got a great substitute ready in the wings for the outgoing David Warner.

Ponting expects Jake Fraser-McGurk to fill Warner’s “big set of shoes”. The coach of Delhi Capitals feels that Fraser-McGurk has acquired “extreme talent” and has a brilliant future forward of him.

“It’s going to be really big set of shoes to fill, there’s no doubt about that,” Ponting advised ESPNcricinfo. “They have got a lot of depth there. I’d be very surprised if he [Fraser-McGurk] doesn’t go straight into the T20 team when David’s finally done. And for that matter, we saw Jake debut for Australia in the one-day stuff in the last Australian summer. I was lucky enough to coach him at the Delhi Capitals this year as well. He’s got extreme talent.”

Ponting additionally lauded Warner’s contribution to Australian cricket and talked about {that a} staff requires characters like Warner in main ICC occasions.

“He’s the sort of character you want to have around your team, especially in big tournaments like World Cups. And he’s just one of those natural winners. Everything he does, he wants to win. You can see that with his attitude in the field and the way he goes about his cricket,” Ponting added.

“So there’s more than just the runs that we’ll be missing when Warner finally is gone. But hopefully the depth of Australian cricket is good enough to find someone to come in and fill that void.”

Ponting opined that Australia have an ideal probability of successful the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup and changing into the primary staff ever to maintain all three main titles of all of the codecs.

“They have got a few leaders in the side as well. Mitchell Marsh being the captain of this team and Pat Cummins obviously being the one-day and Test captain, and Pat’s just come off a pretty successful captaincy campaign with Sunrisers (Hyderabad) as well in the IPL. So they have got a lot of bases covered and they won’t want to let this opportunity slip knowing that it could be the last World Cup that a few of these guys play as well.”