Ricky Ponting includes only one Indian in his Test team of the decade

Tanish Chachra | 30/12/2019
Ricky Ponting includes only one Indian in his Test team of the decade

Ricky Ponting includes only one Indian in his team of the decade, even though the Indian team has been one of the most dominant forces.

The Indian team had a great decade in all the formats of the cricket, which also includes one ICC ODI World Cup. The men in blue successfully transitioned when its legends retired successively from the start to the middle of the decade.

Now, India’s cricket team is among the most feared teams in the world under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. India has also been dominating the present scene in Test cricket and is leading ICC Test Championship chart.

Despite it, the former Australian captain Ricky Ponting doesn’t believe that there cab more than one Indian player who can contest for the Test team of the decade.

Ponting has included only Virat Kohli in his best Test team of the decade, Ponting chose to ignore R Ashwin in the team who has the best statistical record in this decade in the spin.

Although it can be argued that except for Kohli none other Indian has been that consistent to break into the team but the inclusion of seven players only from Australia and England can also be considered objectionable.

One could argue that Ashwin has been poor in the overseas tours so his exclusion can be justified but at the same time, James Anderson has also been poor in Asia.

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On the other hand, Ben Stokes has shown his best self in the dying years of this decade which should not be significant enough to be in the team of the decade and Shakib Al Hasan has a better shout in the team than Stokes.

Nevertheless, a decent team by Ponting but few alterations still can be made in this team.

Post Edited By: Tanish Chachra
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Tanish Chachra

Tanish Chachra is the Motorsport editor at The SportsRush. He saw his first race when F1 visited India in 2011, and since then, his romance with the sport has been seasonal until he took up this role in 2020. Reigniting F1's coverage on this site, Tanish has fallen in love with the sport all over again. He loves Kimi Raikkonen and sees a future world champion in Oscar Piastri. Away from us, he loves to snuggle inside his books.

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