Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting is reportedly being focused to educate England’s Test staff. The Australian legend Ponting is presently working as head coach with the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Delhi Capitals.

Rob Key, the previous Kent and England batter who subsequently cast a profitable profession in broadcasting, has been appointed by the ECB as its new managing director of England males’s cricket.

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According to a report printed by The Times, Ponting is ‘high on Key’s listing of targets for Test coach’ together with former India and South Africa coach Gary Kirsten. The report additionally states that Sri Lanka legend Mahela Jayawardene, who has intensive teaching expertise on the franchise circuit with the likes of Mumbai Indians within the IPL and Southern Brave in The Hundred, is ‘likely to be approached to coach the white-ball team’, reviews mirror.co.uk.

Former England captain Nasser Hussain has beforehand known as for Ponting to get the job. He informed the Daily Mail, “For me, there isn’t a finer mind in cricket for the time being than Ricky Ponting, who reads the sport so effectively.

“The new coach must be somebody the gamers’ respect; the dressing room has been a bit too good lately. And, my goodness, if the batters in that England staff aren’t going to take heed to what Ponting has to say about method, then why are they enjoying the sport?

“Not all greats of the game become good coaches because they’re not sure how to get their message across. Ponting doesn’t have that problem,” Hussain had stated.

“But because I can’t see him wanting to commit to a year-round gig — if he wants to commit at all — then we have to split the role. And there’s no reason why Paul Collingwood can’t be in charge of the white-ball team.”

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