Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has questioned Joe Root’s feedback about England’s bowlers throughout the Ashes and stated that as captain of the touring facet the onus is on him to make adjustments when wanted.
After a nine-wicket thrashing within the Brisbane opener, England misplaced the second Test in Adelaide by 275 runs on Monday to path the five-match sequence 2-0.
Root stated after the pink ball Test that his bowlers wanted to bowl fuller and “be a bit braver”.
“I nearly fell off my seat when I heard that,” Ponting instructed a Cricket Australia web site. “Whose job is it then to make them change? Why are you captain then?
“If you’ll be able to’t affect your bowlers on what size to bowl, what are you doing on the sphere?
“Joe Root can come back and say whatever he likes but if you’re captain, you’ve got to be able to sense when your bowlers aren’t bowling where you want them to. That’s what captaincy is all about.”
Ponting additionally instructed that England’s bowling assault was at its greatest when Root left the sphere because of a groin harm and the captaincy was briefly handed over to Ben Stokes.
“The interesting thing for me is the only time they bowled full in the game was when Joe Root wasn’t on the ground,” Ponting stated.
“The start of day four when they had a meeting on the ground before play started, Stokes took over the captaincy, and that was the only time in the game they pitched the ball up.”
The third Ashes Test might be performed on the Melbourne Cricket Ground from Dec. 26-30.
