Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has blamed the lack of top-level players in prominent coaching roles as one of the reasons for decline of Australian cricket.
“It’s been a topic of conversation for 20 years, about having the right people at the right places at the right times,” Ponting told cricket.com.au.
“Whether that’s the cricket academy (now absorbed into the Bupa National Cricket Centre in Brisbane) or the states, or the U-19s or 17s around the state set-up, I’m just not sure enough attention is being paid to coaching around Australia.
“I think it might be the reason why we’re struggling to find those (top-level) players now.
“If you wind the clock back 20 years when some of these guys that are (now) playing international cricket or senior players in (Sheffield) Shield cricket, have a look who the coaches might have been around them at that stage and you’ll start to understand some of the reasons.” Ponting added.
He further added that T20 was a format which suited him more.
“I’m probably more tactically up to date with the trend in that game that any of the others,” he said.
