“Ollie Robinson got tailenders and hasn’t looked dangerous at all”- Ricky Ponting drops bombs with his remarks

Ashes Series 2023 Test number 2 has started at Lords, and Australia has turned Day 2 in its favor by taking quick wickets. At the end of Day 2, England were 278/4, trailing by 138 runs. Australia put 416 runs on the board in their first innings as Steve Smith scored his 32nd century. Travis Head and David Warner contributed with their half centuries to put 400+ on the board. From England’s side, Ben Duckett played a marvelous innings of 98 runs but failed to score a century. Ollie Robinson, while bowling, took 3 wickets for 100 runs and was the joint highest wicket-taker for England, but Ricky Ponting didn’t seem impressed with him and said that he didn’t look dangerous at all.

Ollie Robinson and Ricky Ponting made headlines when the former, after his abusive send-off to Usman Khwaja, justified his heated reaction by giving an example of Ricky Ponting doing the same in his playing days, which was not taken well by the former Australian captain as he advised him to learn more about Ashes and test cricket and focus on bowling rather than his past remarks. After Day 2 of the Ashes Test 2, he threw some remarks at Ollie Robinson on the ICC Review.

“I don’t think he’s looked dangerous in the series at all. I mean, if you look at the wickets, he’s got the tailenders out in each game. Yes, he got Marnus Labuschagne in this innings here. But then he got Nathan Lyon and then he got Josh Hazlewood. So, if he didn’t get the 10 and 11 out, then he finishes his innings with one wicket at over four runs an over,”

Ponting told on the ICC Review.

“He’s a very skilful bowler, no doubt about that, and no one would’ve said a word about Ollie Robinson if he hadn’t have sort of instigated this whole tit-for-tat that’s been happening over the last couple of weeks. And to be honest, I think the whole thing’s been blown completely out of proportion”.

He added

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