“Travis Head Probably Is Similar To Adam Gilchrist”- Ricky Ponting

Australian Cricket Team dictated the terms against India on Day 1 of the ICC World Test Championship (WTC 2021-23 final). Travis Head played a stellar knock of 146 runs in 156 balls and struck 22 fours and 1 six. Travis Head along with Steve Smith have stitched an unbeaten mammoth partnership of 251 runs in 370 balls.

Steve Smith too played an unbeaten fine knock of 95 runs in 227 balls and struck 14 fours. The Aussies wouldn’t have asked for a better start as scoring 327 runs for the loss of 3 wickets says a lot about the team’s dynamics.

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The most likely way that India can make a comeback in the contest is that they need wickets in quick succession and hope that the pitch doesn’t deteriorate as the Aussies have got a lethal bowling lineup.

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Travis Head’s confidence is growing by the game- Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting was having an interaction with the ICC. Ricky Ponting stated that Travis Head has got similar traits to the legendary batter Adam Gilchrist. Ricky Ponting pointed out that Travis Head’s strike rate is going up and said that his last 2 years have been quite remarkable.

“He probably is similar to Gilchrist In fact he is probably scoring quicker now than Gilly probably ever did. His strike-rate through this (World Test Championship) qualification period is 81, which is higher than anyone else in the world to have scored more than 500 runs, said Ricky Ponting.

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“His confidence is growing by the game, his strike-rate keeps going up, he hits boundaries early on in his innings which puts pressure back on the bowlers which is what you want from your middle order players, and his last two years have been quite remarkable,” he added.

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India will learn the way they bowled to Travis Head in first innings- Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting was quite impressed with the way Travis Head smashed boundaries and targeted the bowlers and said that Indian bowlers didn’t plan for the batter. Ricky Ponting pointed out that India missed a trick by not including Ashwin in the playing 11 as the Aussies have 4 left-handed batters.

“I think when he first comes in you need to execute perfectly to him, It is no good trying to over attack him because if you bowl any bad ball, he is going to put it away. They will learn by the way they bowled to him in this first innings, and they will definitely adjust in this second innings, but sometimes it is too late.” said Ricky Ponting.

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“As this game goes on, I have got no doubt that there is going to be turn. Australia have got a lot of left-handers in their batting line-up to which Ashwin would have been perfectly suited for. So far for me, it looks like it was a mistake from them by playing the four seamers, but we will see how the game pans out,” he added.

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