“Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma’s retirement will lead to a better future for Team India” – The right hand of Shreyas Iyer
The India national cricket team is ready to start a new era under Shubman Gill in England without two of their greatest strikers, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli, who announced their longest format retirement in the game last month.
While India is expected to face England in a series of five -game tests, starting on June 20 in Leeds, the legendary Australian cricket player Ricky Ponting shared his point of view on the test trip of the young team without the emblematic strikers Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma and their replacements in alignment.
Ricky Ponting predicts a smooth transition while India begins a new era after the retirement of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma
Ponting has recognized how difficult it will be for the national cricket team of India to fill the massive shortcomings left by Rohit and Kohli in Test Cricket. But the former Australian captain believes that they are better prepared than most nations to manage this transition.
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Ricky Ponting would have been quoted by the CPI review: “It is always very difficult to replace players like that who have existed for so long who have played so much test cricket. But if a country can do it and do it quickly, India can because of the amount of young talents they have. ”
With a long list of talented young people who are already shining on the big stage like IPL, the punjab Kings head coach is convinced that India has depth and skills to move forward without slowing down.
He cited the example of Yashasvi Jaiswal, who had an instant impact on international cricket, as proof that the future is already for the Indian part.
Ricky Ponting says India will miss the experience of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma
The legendary cricket player also noted: “I have seen him first -hand for 10 years now around the IPL, and we saw the emergence of Jaiswal and this kind of guy who came to international cricket with India and who succeeded very well immediately.”
However, Ponting warned India from the real challenge, and it is the experience they will miss after the retirement of Rohit and Virat Kohli.
However, he believes that Kl Rahul and Jasprit Bumrah will help the next generation move forward during this transition phase.
He also explained: “The skill side of his thing to replace, and I think that India will replace the skill side quite easily, but experience is the great thing that will miss them. So now, even with a young captain of Shubman Gill, they will still have an experience with Kl Rahul, Bumrah, and this kind of guy. ”
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India can manage the transition better than anyone: Ricky Ponting
In the end, the triple winner of the World Cup reiterated that if a team can rebuild quickly and successfully after losing two great modern, it is India.
Ponting signed by saying: “But I think that if you look at a kind of reconstruction phase, I think India can face it better than most other teams.”
In particular, since he made his debut in the test, Virat Kohli played 123 games and scored 9,230 points at an average of 46.85. He struck 30 centuries, including 7 hundreds hundreds and 31 years 50.
On the other hand, Rohit played 67 test games and scored 4301 points at an average of 40.57. He is 12 centuries and 18 fifty, his highest score being 212, in his name.
