“I think they’ll pick Konstas and I think they should pick Konstas : Ponting on Sam Konstas’s chances in Sri Lanka tour

Konstas, who created past with a breezy half-century during his maiden Test innings during the Boxing Day Test astatine Melbourne successful December past year, could not impressment further successful his adjacent 3 Test innings with scores of 8, 23 and 22 successful those innings. Konstas had scored 18 runs disconnected a Jasprit Bumrah implicit successful the Melbourne Test and volition beryllium touring the Indian sub-continent for the archetypal clip successful his planetary career. “Getting retired of Australia and distant from immoderate of that buzz and hype that’s surrounded him for the summertime volition astir apt bash him immoderate bully arsenic well, and helium gets to larn a spot of what the travelling beingness of an planetary cricketer is each astir and however hard it tin beryllium to play successful antithetic parts of the world. I’d beryllium picking him if I was a selector,” said Ponting.

While Head has opened successful the Test matches successful caller years, Ponting shared that the determination to spell with Konstas arsenic an opener volition assistance successful agelong term. Konstas has played successful 13 archetypal people matches and has scored 831 runs with 2 hundreds and 4 fifties.

Asked astir the enactment of moving Head up the top, Ponting said that the determination needed to beryllium considered against the wider worth the bid would connection to Konstas arsenic a subordinate learning his trade arsenic an opener astir the world. The erstwhile skipper besides compared Konstas’s aboriginal days with his aboriginal days successful Test cricket. “Sam seems similar a antithetic quality than what I was coming into an Australian team. He’s got a spot much astir him, been connected the beforehand ft a small spot much than I was. My archetypal circuit to the West Indies successful 1995 I knew I wasn’t going to beryllium playing. I was 1 of the spare batsmen. When you’re coming into a circuit similar that, it’s precise overmuch to beryllium backmost and hold your crook and don’t expect excessively overmuch from training, don’t expect excessively overmuch from the guys. [It’s] a spot antithetic with Sam now, he’s the incumbent Test lucifer opener, and helium should beryllium going distant determination conscionable to get arsenic overmuch proposal and inquire arsenic galore questions arsenic helium tin of the much elder players,” said Ponting.