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Ricky Ponting makes call on England white-ball coaching role, weighs future in IPL coaching

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Ricky Ponting

Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting revealed that he will not consider coaching England’s white-ball team. He stated that he considers his coaching future in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Notably, England is considering hiring a new coach after Matthew Mott stepped down from the role.

The 49-year-old turned down offers to coach England’s Test side before Brendon McCullum took on the role. Notably, he has completed a seven-year stint with the Delhi Capitals in the IPL. He stated that he has a heavy workload as of now and if England are considering him, they can take it off.

“No, I wouldn’t ever consider doing that actually (on England white-ball coaching role). 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,” Ponting told host Sanjana Ganesan on the most recent episode of The ICC Review.

“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,” he added.

Ponting also mentioned that he thoroughly enjoys coaching in the IPL despite his recent departure from Delhi.

“I’d love to coach again in the IPL. I’ve had a great time every year that I’ve been involved, whether that was in the early days as a player or the couple of years I had at Mumbai as head coach there. And then I’ve had seven seasons at Delhi, which unfortunately didn’t really work out the way that I would have wanted and certainly the way that the franchise would have wanted. I think me going there was all about trying to bring some silverware to the team and that didn’t happen,” he said further.

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