NEW DELHI: Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has revealed he was approached to be India’s subsequent head cricket coach, however stated the calls for of the high-profile job meant he was unlikely to take it up.
Ponting, 49, is head coach of Delhi Capitals within the Indian Premier League and has tv commitments in Australia.
He’s additionally the top of technique at Hobart Hurricanes for Australia’s Massive Bash League and head coach of Washington Freedom within the US Main League Cricket event.
“I’ve seen plenty of studies about it,” Ponting was quoted as saying Thursday by the Worldwide Cricket Council web site. “There have been a couple of little one-on-one conversations through the IPL, simply to get a stage of curiosity from me as as to whether I’d do it,” he added.
“Everybody is aware of in case you take a job working with the Indian staff you possibly can’t be concerned in an IPL staff, so it will take that out of it.”
Ponting stated being a nationwide coach would imply devoting as much as 11 months of the 12 months to the job.
“As a lot as I’d love to do it, it simply doesn’t match into my life-style proper now and the issues that I actually get pleasure from doing,” he added.
The India coach job, at present held by Rahul Dravid, falls vacant after the T20 World Cup in June with the Board of Management for Cricket in India in search of a substitute till the subsequent 50-over World Cup in 2027.
India haven’t gained a worldwide title for the reason that 2013 Champions Trophy beneath their final international coach, Duncan Fletcher of Zimbabwe.
Native media studies stated former India batsman Gautam Gambhir, former New Zealand skipper Stephen Fleming and Australian Justin Langer had additionally been sounded out for the job.
Ponting stated his son was excited when he instructed him in regards to the prospect of turning into the India coach.
“I had a whisper to my son about it, and I stated, ‘Dad’s been supplied the Indian teaching job’ and he stated,’‘Simply take it dad, we’d love to maneuver over there for the subsequent couple of years’”, Ponting stated.
“That’s how a lot they love being over there and the tradition of cricket in India, however proper now it most likely doesn’t precisely match into my life-style.”
Printed in Daybreak, Could twenty fourth, 2024