Australian batting nice Ricky Ponting has requested England pacer Ollie Robinson, who tried riling up Usman Khawaja along with his expletive-laden sendoff in the course of the Ashes opener at Edgbaston, to “back it up with your skills.” Robinson was closely criticised by former Australian cricketers, together with Allan Border, Matthew Hayden and Ian Healy, for abusing Khawaja after he dismissed the Australian opener for 141 within the first innings.
However within the second essay, he couldn’t break the partnership between tail-enders Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon, who chased down the goal on the fifth day to present the guests a 1-0 lead within the sequence.
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“As I said after Ollie Robinson said what he said, this England cricket team hasn’t played against Australia and they’ll find out pretty quickly what playing Ashes cricket and playing against a good Australian cricket team is all about,” Ponting informed The ICC Review podcast.
“And if Ollie Robinson hasn’t learned that already after last week, then he’s a slow learner,” he added.
While defending his act, Robinson made a reference to Ponting’s sledging in his taking part in days. The two-time World Cup-winning captain took be aware of it.
“Some of the things he had to say – I mean he even brought my name into it, which I felt was a little bit unusual but for me it’s water off a duck’s back – if he is sitting back thinking about me, then no wonder he bowled like the way that he did in that game, if he’s worried about what I did 15 years ago.
“He’ll learn pretty quickly that if you’re going to talk to Australian cricketers in an Ashes series, then you want to be able to back it up with your skills.” Ponting additionally believed that Jonny Bairstow’s wicket-keeping errors have been one of many essential causes behind’s England defeat within the opener.
“Jonny Bairstow actually had a very ordinary game behind the stumps, there’s about four chances that he put down. And on flat wickets, if they want flat wickets, you cannot afford your keeper to be making mistakes.
“If you look at those mistakes by themselves, some people might say those mistakes could have cost him the Test match. Those are things they have to answer. Whereas Australia, because they’ve won the game, they’ll have to answer a lot fewer questions,” Ponting mentioned.
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England’s ‘Bazball’ type of play didn’t lead to a victory at Edgbaston and Ponting mentioned the consequence will put the hosts beneath strain going into the second Test.
“I think it’s going to be a really, really good test for England. Actually, I think it’s going to be a good test for their style of play. I think it’s going to be a good test for their leadership and their coaching,” Ponting mentioned.
“One thing that I was looking forward to seeing most was how this style of play actually stood up against Australia. They’ve played Pakistan in Pakistan on flat wickets. I think they played New Zealand in six (five) of those 11 Test matches that they’ve won. And that was why I was so intrigued by what was going to happen.
“I said on commentary last night that, after day one, everyone was saying that Australia were negative, Australia had lots of questions to answer, how have Australia got to combat what England are doing? But Australia won the game.”
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com