Ponting turns down the chances of becoming England's white-ball head coach
Matthew Mott has stepped down from the white-ball team's head coach role of England team. As the position is currently vacant and the ECB(England Cricket Board) is searching for Mott's successor, who led them through the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022's glory at the Melbourne.
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Posted - 2024-08-09T16:37:46+06:00
Updated - 2024-08-09T16:37:46+06:00
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has turned down the chances of him being the coach of England's white-ball team, saying it's difficult to take up a time-consuming international job at this stage of his life.
Matthew Mott has stepped down from the white-ball team's head coach role of England team. As the position is currently vacant and the ECB(England Cricket Board) is searching for Mott's successor, who led them through the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2022's glory at the Melbourne.
Speaking on an episode of The ICC Review podcast, Ponting said:
"No, I wouldn't ever consider doing that actually. I'm on record saying that international jobs for me right now are not really where my life is at as there's just so much more time taken up with an international job. I've got other commitments as well, with my TV work and things that I do and also trying to balance that out with having a decent amount of home time, which I haven't had much of the last couple of years anyway."
In the same interview, Ponting said that he wants to concentrate on franchise coaching and commentary.
"Coaching other international teams is one thing, coaching England for an Australian is probably something slightly different, but right now there's sort of enough on my plate as I've got a bit more coming up in the next couple of months in the UK. Australia's got some white-ball stuff coming up over there which I'll go and commentate, so no, right now if my name was on the list they can actually take it off."