Ricky Ponting says he used to be offered the job of India head coach earlier than Rahul Dravid.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has revealed that he used to be approached for the Crew India coach’s job nonetheless he had to flip it down as he can not give the job that great time. Ponting said on the Grade Cricketers Podcast that he had a conversation with some of us about it at some stage within the IPL.
“The Of us I spoke to were very concerned to search out one scheme to assemble it work, nonetheless the first component I said, ‘I will’t give that great of time’. Meaning, I will’t coach within the IPL,” said Ponting who’s currently the head coach of Delhi Capitals.
Typically my ardour for my group will get the easier of me! The least bit times exhausting to beat MI, refined prerequisites for batting nonetheless Shreyas and Ashwin did exactly what we wished them to enact. Vast consume @delhicapitals https://t.co/d8HrpXQAxi
— Ricky Ponting (@RickyPonting) October 3, 2021
Ponting is bowled over that Rahul Dravid took the head coach job of Crew India.
“I’m very bowled over that Dravid has taken this job. I’m no longer obvious about his family lifestyles nonetheless I’m obvious he has young young of us. So I’m bowled over that he took it nonetheless as I said, the of us I spoke to were obvious they bought the real person so that they were potentially in a jam to gain Dravid to enact it,” Ponting said.
The 5-wicket consume within the first T20I against Novel Zealand at Jaipur on Wednesday kick-started Dravid’s instructing stint with the Indian senior group.
