- Ricky Ponting was approached by the BCCI
- He politely declined India’s method to teach them
- Ponting says toll of travelling the world is hard to simply accept
Ricky Ponting has flagged the thought of sooner or later teaching Australia after revealing he was sounded out for the Indian job.
The Australian legend, who has served part-time and mentor roles with the Australian workforce since his retirement as a participant, mentioned he would ‘love’ to teach a nationwide workforce when commitments in his private life permit.
That might put the Australian job, if solely as coach of one of many white-ball groups ought to commitments be break up sooner or later like in different nations, in his sights in what could possibly be a coup for Cricket Australia.
Ponting, who coaches the Delhi Capitals within the Indian Premier League, mentioned he was requested about taking up as Indian coach with the job marketed by the BCCI with Rahul Dravid’s contract expiring on the finish of the T20 World Cup subsequent month.
However the weight of the job, and the timing, made it straightforward to refuse.
Ricky Ponting revealed he rejected an method from the BCCI for the India teaching job
Ponting will not be but ready to decide to the arduous journey concerned in worldwide teaching
‘Usually this stuff pop up on social media earlier than you even learn about them, however there have been a couple of little one-on-one conversations through the IPL, simply to get a degree of curiosity from me as as to if I’d do it,’ Ponting advised the ICC web site. .
‘I would like to be a senior coach of a nationwide workforce, however with the opposite issues that I’ve in my life and desirous to have a little bit of time at dwelling…everybody is aware of for those who take a job working with the Indian workforce you’ll be able to’t be concerned in an IPL workforce, so it could take that out of it as effectively.’
Ponting mentioned the time spent on the street being a head coach remained one of many hardest points to beat for him to fulfill his wish to take cost someplace and that it ‘simply would not match into my life-style proper now’.
He mentioned he can coach within the IPL as a result of his household journey with him, however that could not occur all 12 months, although his son advocated for him to take the Indian job.
‘A nationwide head coach is a ten or 11-month of the 12 months job, and as a lot as I would love to do it, it simply would not match into my life-style proper now and the issues that I actually take pleasure in doing,’
‘My household and my youngsters have spent the final 5 weeks over on the IPL with me.
‘They arrive over yearly and I had a whisper to my son about it, and I mentioned, ‘Dad’s been supplied the Indian teaching job’ and he mentioned, ‘Simply take it Dad, we might love to maneuver over there for the following couple of years.
‘That is how a lot they love being over there and the tradition of cricket in India, however proper now it in all probability would not precisely match into my life-style.’
