Kane Cornes has taken a swipe at former Aussie Test captain Ricky Ponting.
The Port Adelaide nice on Tuesday took situation with feedback made by the Channel 7 commentator through the Perth Scorchers’ win over the Sydney Thunder on Monday evening.
Ponting didn’t maintain again in his evaluation of the Sydney Showground pitch whereas watching on as Ashton Agar set a brand new BBL report amongst spinners with figures of two/6 from his 4 overs.
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Most of the batters struggled to learn the difficult pitch, nonetheless English imports Alex Hales (72) and Zak Crawley (58) appeared at house in a match the place the hosts had been restricted to eight/137 earlier than the Scorchers chased the whole down with 5 balls to spare.
Ponting described the deck as “substandard”.
Cornes has now reached deep into his bag of scorching takes and brought a public shot on the World Cup-winning Aussie captain.
“How precious are we getting? This is getting so predictable and it’s getting so boring,” the the AFL premiership winner mentioned on SEN Breakfast.
He mentioned the Melbourne Stars’ blasting win over the Adelaide Strikers on New Year’s Eve the place 416 runs had been scored was a much less fulfilling spectacle than the sight of batsmen struggling in Monday evening’s BBL contest.
“I found it incredibly repetitive, incredibly boring and not a challenge,” he mentioned.
“Last night the Perth Scorchers made 140 and the Sydney Thunder 137. This is a great contest and we’re seeing something different. It wasn’t as if both teams were bowled out for 40. Alex Hales, the pitch was fine for him. He made 72 off of 55.
“We have become so conditioned to flat pitches, massive bats and short boundaries and balls that do nothing and balls that clear the rope. I would much rather see a game like last night.
“But that’s not going to happen because, the curator next time will say, ‘You know what, the next time I’m going to make conditions a little big more friendly for the bowler’, he’s going to have Ricky Ponting ringing in his ears.
“He’ll say, ‘No I better not do that. Punter’s going to be on international TV, the most renowned commentator that we’ve got and he’s going to smash me for doing something different, even though there’s been challenges preparing the pitch.
“I think it’s s joke and I think cricket’s become far too boring. Maybe it’s one of the reasons it is boring and particularly at Test level and do we need to even things up?”
In a dialogue with co-host Sam Edmund, Cornes went on to say: “I think people want a contest and they don’t want bowlers to be obsolete.
“Let’s just make the bats bigger, bring the boundaries in, make the pitches flat because Punter is going to sook about it. C’mon how precious is that.”
Ponting had loads of causes to share hid disappointment with the situations in Sydney.
“I just think the wicket that we’re seeing tonight is substandard for BBL. Simple as that,” Ponting informed Channel 7.
“The problem I’ve got with it is, the Sydney Thunder have been a struggling team, I think it’s fair to say that.
“How are you going to attract young players from around Australia, or even overseas players, to come and play at your club if they’re going to be batting on a wicket like that?
“That’s the concern I’ve got. It’s always been a really inconsistent surface.”
Agar made full use of the inconsistent bounce, bowling 18 dot balls and 6 singles in a match-defining spell.
The left-arm tweaker accomplished the run out of Tom Kohler-Cadmore (27) then bowled Matthew Gilkes for a duck three balls later to spark a Thunder collapse that they by no means recovered from.
The Scorchers’ former left-arm fast Mitchell Johnson is the one bowler to concede fewer runs from 4 full overs when taking 3-3 in opposition to the Melbourne Stars in 2017.
Agar matched Adam Milne as subsequent finest with six runs from his 4 overs, though the New Zealand pacer solely claimed one scalp for the Thunder in opposition to the Adelaide Strikers in 2021.
Cornes, in the meantime, just lately additionally took a swipe at Australian tennis star Nick Kyrgios, describing the previous Wimbledon finalist as “probably the greatest waste of talent that we’ve ever seen”.
Source: www.news.com.au
