Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has identified the top three batters he expects to feature in the first Ashes Test and Australia’s opening series of the new World Test Championship cycle. He also shared advice for struggling opener Sam Konstas, whose form has been a topic of intense discussion.
Despite securing a 3-0 Test series win in the Caribbean, Australia’s batting lineup did little to quell earlier criticisms about their weaknesses, managing to score over 300 runs only once in the series, with the lower order contributing most of the runs.
Instead, the team heavily relied on their formidable bowling attack, with Mitchell Starc, Scott Boland, and Josh Hazlewood leading the charge, bowling out the West Indies for just 27 runs in the final innings.
“The (batters) that they’re talking about the last couple of weeks in particular, have been (Sam) Konstas and (Usman) Khawaja, and then there was some talk about Cameron Green, if he was a long-term No. 3 or not,” Ponting shared in the latest edition of The ICC Review.
