Ricky Ponting damns England as worst performing team to tour Australia

Previous Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has marked England the most exceedingly terrible performing group to visit his nation following their lowering Ashes crusade.

Australia have ensured maintenance of the urn inside 12 days of cricket – England spent longer in isolation before the beginning of the visit – as an innings-and-14-run win in Melbourne moved them into an unassailable 3-0 lead.The vacationers’ breakdown to 68 all out in the second innings of the Boxing Day Test was marked “humiliating” by several previous players and Ponting accepts a significant number of their hitters are inadequate at the most elevated level.

“I don’t think I’ve seen a more terrible performing group in Australia than what I’ve seen throughout the last three games,” Ponting told cricket.com.au.

“A portion of the English top-request hitters that I’ve found in the last several visits, without giving names, there’s certain methods there that I simply know won’t stand up at Test level. In testing conditions and top notch bowlers facing inadequate strategies, then, at that point, you get what happened [at the MCG]. What I’ve seen with their batting, they’re basically not sufficient.”

The aftermath has begun with hypothesis on the places of commander Joe Root and lead trainer Chris Silverwood while there has been no absence of soul-looking with regards to district cricket and regardless of whether it is creating players prepared for Tests.

Ponting feels one arrangement could be to present the Kookaburra ball in the County Championship, imitating how Australia embraced the Dukes in 2016-17 to assist with setting up their hitters for the 2019 Ashes.”We’ve experienced this in Australia,” Ponting added. “You wind the clock back a couple of years prior when we had our battles in England, we changed conditions, we changed the ball, we changed everything in light of the fact that we were poor in those conditions.

“Britain may have to examine how they can make their conditions more appropriate to our own. They play well in England still yet they don’t play well when they come here – so perhaps they play more with the Kookaburra ball. Possibly they smooth the wickets out a tad so there’s not as much swing and crease. It very well may be precisely the same blip that [Australia] needed to have three or four years prior.”