Australian cricket legend Ricky Ponting has named the participant who can take over from the captaincy tasks from Aaron Finch. Particularly, Finch introduced his retirement from ODIs right through Australia’s fresh house sequence in opposition to New Zealand, which the hosts gained 3-0.

And with lower than a 12 months to head sooner than the beginning of the 2023 ICC Males’s Cricket International Cup in India, Australia must come to a decision temporarily as to who will take the captaincy reins from Finch. Whilst Cricket Australia (CA) continues to be considering, Ponting has proven self belief in tempo bowler Pat Cummins to steer the Aussies within the 50-over structure. To not point out, Cummins is already the captain of Australia’s Take a look at cricket aspect.

“I feel it’ll be Pat Cummins, to be truthful,” Ponting instructed host Sanjana Ganesan on The ICC Assessment display.

“I do know he doesn’t play the entire ODIs for obtrusive causes as a result of his workload in Take a look at cricket has been, like the entire speedy bowlers, very prime in the previous couple of years. I do know they’re very aware of constructing positive that they’ve were given Cummins, (Josh) Hazlewood and (Mitchell) Starc 100 consistent with cent are compatible and wholesome for the massive Take a look at sequence to come back round. However glance, I’ll be stunned if it wasn’t Pat Cummins,” he added.

The Tasmanian additionally shared his tackle David Warner‘s long term within the context of management in Australia, mentioning if CA could make Steve Smith the vice-captain in Exams, Warner may also be applied in a similar fashion.

“He’s now the Take a look at vice-captain, because of this clearly that if Pat Cummins ever misses a Take a look at, then Steve Smith goes to be the captain of Australia once more in Take a look at fit cricket. So, if that’s the case, and all being even and rather truthful, then I feel it might be OK, so far as I’m involved, for David Warner to have his title (within the ring). No longer pronouncing that they’ve to make him captain, however he must have the ability to be within the dialog,” Ponting added additional.