Melbourne: Former Australian Skipper Ricky Ponting Feeling Ben Stokes did not look like a “physical aggressive” presence that the opposition team was feared because of the “ultra-defensive approach” in the ongoing ash series.
Ponting also slammed the British captain Joe Root, Stokes and Jos Buttler for the way he dismissed in the first round of a boxing test of the day charged by the captain of the World Cup twice “could not be forgiven”.
England was 0-2 down in the tent dispute between traditional rivals.
“He looked very defensive.
He doesn’t look like a big presence, physically aggressive at the peak that the opposition team has been afraid of bowls in another series,” Ponting told ‘Cricket.com.au’.
“You can understand why – the condition of the blow is not easy in any game and he will fight some good bowlers,” he added.
Ponting considers Stokes to deviate from the conservative approach to helping tourists fighting.
“But I think if you just sit and wait, and don’t press the great bowler, they will take you out.
We always say in the team I played in a better bowler, more and more risks you have to take as a dough, because you don’t Getting a bad ball.
“You have to find a way to jump on anything a little bad, turn as many attacks as you can.” Go to the third test, England shuffle their top order, bringing Zac Crawley and Jonny Bairstow at the Pope’s Ollie and Rory Burns.
But after being included in the stick on the first day of the boxing test, the buncil tourists were only 185.
Ponting felt bland performance by fellow British batteries had put pressure on Stokes.
“The point is with it technically he might be the second best player of them, so You don’t keep pushing it on the list when you hit a guy with the inferior technique in front of it.
“And if you see everyone outside Joe Root then I will say that it is technically their second best player.” Ponting sharply in his criticism of Stokes, Root and Buttler, added that senior players need to go up to that opportunity.
“(That) cannot be forgiven for your three more senior players, the players they need to stand behind what we believe is some hard enough discussion after the Adelaide game.” If your leaders will not do it, then you cannot expect younger people to complete work.
“Young people will learn from senior players and when senior players set such examples, you can understand why some younger people make mistakes too,” he showed.
Stokes did not look like an aggressive presence that was feared by the team: Ponting
