Ricky Ponting is surprised with Suryakumar Yadav’s exclusion from India’s primary squad for the World Test Championship last scheduled to start on June 7 subsequent month. He additionally backed Ishan Kishan to provide the much-needed ‘X’ factor to the staff.
Suryakumar, who made his Test debut in opposition to Australia at dwelling earlier this yr is called among the many standby gamers. In the one Test match that he performed, Surya scored eight runs.
Asked if Suryakumar ought to have been within the squad, Ponting expressed shock and mentioned “Yes”.
An harm to KL Rahul has made approach for Kishan, who Ponting thinks has lots of potential to bat within the center order.
“There is one other X factor that has simply been added in, Ishan Kishan. If you take a look at the best way he performs, he’s in all probability probably the most like Rishabh Pant with his potential to maintain and bat within the center order.
“If they do play these guys they need to be given the correct to play an aggressive model of cricket.
“The best chance for India to achieve a result is by being a bit more adventurous in the way they play and Australia will try to do the same thing,” mentioned Ponting in response to a PTI question.
Ponting, who can be the pinnacle coach of the IPL staff Delhi Capitals, revealed his chat with Virat Kohli throughout a match in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore
“I caught up with Virat about a month ago when we played them in Bangalore. I had a good chat with him about his batting and where he was at in his career. And he said to me then that he actually feels like he’s almost back to his absolute best,” Ponting mentioned.
He spoke about Rohit Sharma‘s captaincy
“It is not about a field change or bowling change or batting order. It is about how you interact with them. More than 50 percent of captaincy is done off the field. Knowing Rohit as well as I do, he is a very caring person and if you do that, you get performance out of your players,” he added.
