Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has revealed that he was approached first by the England Cricket Board (ECB) to take over the teaching function earlier than Brendon McCullum took the job.
Ponting stated he obtained the decision from Rob Key, who took over because the ECB’s director of males’s cricket in April 2022, concerning the emptiness, however he turned it down.
“I actually got asked before Brendon took the job,” Ponting instructed Guerilla Cricket this week.
“I did take some calls from Robert Key as quickly as he took over that job. But I’m simply not prepared for a full-time worldwide teaching job, the place I’m at in my life. Having travelled as a lot as I’ve, with younger children now I simply don’t wish to be away as a lot as I used to be.
“And even talking to Brendon, his family is only just arriving today. When you’ve got kids that are in school, moving them around, that’s not what I want to do.”
Ponting has coached the Delhi Capitals within the IPL and has assisted former Australian coach Justin Langer in the course of the 2019 World Cup in England.
