Cricket: Ricky Ponting confirms he was approached to be India head coach
The India coach job currently held by Rahul Dravid falls vacant after the T20 World Cup in June.
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Australian cricket icon Ricky Ponting has disclosed that he was recently approached regarding the prospect of succeeding Rahul Dravid as the next head coach of the Indian cricket team.
Ponting, who just completed his seventh season as coach of an Indian Premier League franchise, saw his Delhi Capitals team narrowly miss out on a playoff spot this season.
Despite his previous coaching roles in the IPL with Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals, as well as interim coaching duties for Australia’s national T20I team, Ponting has thus far refrained from committing to the demanding responsibilities of coaching a high-profile national team on a permanent basis.
He is also the head of strategy at Hobart Hurricanes for Australia’s Big Bash League and head coach of Washington Freedom in the US Major League Cricket tournament.
“I’ve seen a lot of reports about it,” Ponting told the International Cricket Council. “Normally these things pop up on social media before you even know about them, but there were a few little one-on-one conversations during the IPL, just to get a level of interest from me as to whether I would do it.
“I’d love to be a senior coach of a national team, but with the other things that I have in my life and wanting to...
