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Legendary Australia cricketer Ricky Ponting has mentioned he won’t think about turning into England’s subsequent males’s white-ball coach, whereas additionally being hopeful in making a return to teaching within the Indian Premier League (IPL). Matthew Mott’s departure as England’s white-ball coach means there is a hunt for a outstanding individual within the cricketing world to fill within the emptiness. Regardless of Ponting’s seven-year stint with the Delhi Capitals ending this yr, the three-time World Cup winner remains to be not able to be teaching full-time on the worldwide degree.
“I am on document saying that worldwide jobs for me proper now will not be actually the place my life is at as there’s simply a lot extra time taken up with a world job. I’ve received different commitments as properly, with my TV work and issues that I do and in addition making an attempt to stability that out with having an honest quantity of residence time, which I have never had a lot of the final couple of years anyway.”
“Teaching different worldwide groups is one factor, teaching England for an Australian might be one thing barely totally different, however proper now there’s type of sufficient on my plate as I’ve received a bit extra developing within the subsequent couple of months within the UK. Australia’s received some white-ball stuff developing over there which I am going to go and commentate, so no, proper now if my identify was on the record they’ll really take it off,” mentioned Ponting within the newest episode of The ICC Evaluation present.
Ponting, who additionally labored as Mumbai Indians head coach, not too long ago coached the Washington Freedom facet to profitable the second season of the Main League Cricket (MLC) and has one other yr on his contract there with the workforce in USA. He’s additionally hoping to have an IPL teaching contract forward of the IPL 2025 season.
“I would love to teach once more within the IPL. I’ve had a good time yearly that I have been concerned, whether or not that was within the early days as a participant or the couple of years I had at Mumbai as head coach there.
“After which I’ve had seven seasons at Delhi, which sadly did not actually work out the way in which that I’d have needed and positively the way in which that the franchise would have needed. I believe me going there was all about making an attempt to convey some silverware to the workforce and that did not occur.”
Ponting additionally revealed the Delhi Capitals will take a unique strategy for selecting their subsequent head coach, hinting that the franchise will look to get an Indian coach onboard. “They made it fairly clear that they needed to move in a unique path with somebody that might give them a bit extra time and a bit extra availability via the low season, actually greater than something to have the ability to spend a bit extra time in India with a whole lot of the native gamers.
“I simply could not try this with the opposite stuff that I’ve received happening. I believe what you will discover is that they will in all probability find yourself with an Indian-based head coach. Definitely that is among the dialogue that I’ve had with them anyway.
“However I am actually grateful for my time that I had there, met some nice folks, labored with some nice folks and clearly labored with some nice gamers via the years as properly. So I want all of them the easiest however as I mentioned there could possibly be a number of alternatives for me popping up within the subsequent couple of months and I would like to be again teaching within the IPL once more subsequent season,” he concluded.
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