Ricky Ponting predicted that India would be defeated by Australia in the T20 World Cup final!
Two-time World Cup-winning captain Ricky Ponting has picked the two teams he thinks will reach the final of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup. The teams were India and Australia. And guess what? He predicted that India will be defeated by Australia in the T20 World Cup final! After that Indian fans created Storm on social media.
Ponting shared his point of view on the show ‘The ICC Review’
Ponting has watched plenty of T20 cricket in recent times, he has seen and analyzed the best players from around the world up close and personal he has now shared his views on the upcoming T20 World Cup with host Sanjana Ganesan on the latest episode of The ICC Review.
The 47-year-old was strong on the teams he thought were most likely to taste success in Australia. Ponting declared, “I think India and Australia will be the two playing in the final and I will just have to say that Australia will beat them in the final,”
“The reigning champions have got home conditions and that was one thing that made Australia’s win in the last World Cup, not remarkable, but that little bit sweeter for them. The fact that a lot of people, me included, thought when they went to UAE, the conditions that they were going to have to face on the back of the IPL, I thought the conditions might have been the thing that might not have allowed them to win it. But they found a way” He added.
Ponting shared his honest view about Virat Kohli
Ponting shared a valid view about Indian Captain Virat Kohli. He said, “I think if I was an opposition captain or an opposition player, I would be afraid of playing an Indian team that has Virat Kohli in it, more than I would be one that doesn’t have him in it, The other thing you risk as well as, if you leave Virat out on the eve of a T20 World Cup, and someone comes in and has a reasonable tournament, it will be hard for Virat to get back in it,”
He added, “If I was India, I would keep pushing with him because I know the upside. If they actually get him back confident and playing as well as he can, that upside is better than most. So I think if I was a captain or a coach around the Indian setup, I’d be making life as easy as possible for him to feel as comfortable as possible, and wait for him to flick the switch and start scoring runs again,”
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Ponting comments on Pakistan, said “No.1 ranked Babar Azam”
Pakistan legend Waqar Younis recently said his former team had an excellent chance of claiming a second T20 World Cup title in Australia, but Ponting isn’t so sure. He said their batting line-up is too reliant on the captain and No.1 ranked batter Babar Azam.
Rickey Ponting said, “If Babar doesn’t have a great tournament, I don’t think they can win,I saw him up close and personal a couple of years ago out here in a Test series against Australia and I said it then, I thought the sky was the limit for this guy as far as Test match batting (was concerned) and, if anything, he’s probably got better and better in the last couple of years”.
He added, “Their openers are essential and their new-ball bowlers are very important, but that role of the spin bowler in Australia might be a little bit more difficult with wickets that probably won’t give them assistance.”
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While Ponting to be asked about the rest of the team
Ponting gave a few other sides an outside chance of riding their luck all the way and said,”I know the game too well and any of New Zealand, Pakistan or West Indies even – we know how they tend to love playing this game and they’re probably most suited to the T20 format. “It wouldn’t surprise me if any of those sides find their way through to the final”, He said.
