Ricky “Nostradamus” Ponting is again within the commentary field after he predicted David Warner’s record-breaking efficiency after day one of many Boxing Day Test.
Warner had been closely criticised after spending three years with out a Test century however he made essentially the most of his alternative with one of many gutsiest centuries seen on these shores.
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Ponting has made loads of seemingly daring calls which have come true throughout his commentary profession together with telling Seven viewers how the Aussie had deliberate to get Marco Jansen a matter of balls earlier than Nathan Lyon took his wicket within the first innings of the primary sport precisely the way in which he had simply laid out.
Australia blasted the Proteas out for 189 and Warner was on 33 not out on the finish of the primary day of the Boxing Day Test.
Before the beginning of day 2, Ponting mentioned Warner would go on to turn out to be simply the second Aussie to hit a century in his one hundredth Test — following Ponting himself — after which go on to be the second participant in historical past to make it a double.
“Yes,” Ponting mentioned after he was requested about Warner’s prospects of 100.
“And if he gets it, he might make 200. There you go.”
As the previous saying goes, it’s simpler mentioned than executed and that was positively true for Warner.
After hitting a much-needed hundred, Warner struggled with cramp as he hit his method in the direction of the milestone.
In a drinks break simply earlier than bringing his double hundred up, Warner seemed distressed, draping a towel over his head and taking up loads of fluids.
When he edged by the slips to convey up the milestone, Warner dropped to his knees earlier than leaping to the air.
However the touchdown was an excessive amount of as Warner was helped from the sphere retired harm for 200.
Ponting was happy for Warner to convey up the milestone.
“Awesome. I actually feel really glad that I am here to witness this,” Ponting mentioned.
“A guy coming into the game under a little pressure and not having made the runs he would have liked to have made. His 100th Test match and he’s played the way we all hoped he would. He’s played the way that all of Australia hoped he would.”
But gamers will probably be eager for Ponting to foretell massive issues for them as has developed a monitor file of being bang on the cash together with his daring calls.
Ponting referred to as a second-ball duck for India’s Prithvi Shaw within the first Test of the Border-Gavaskar Series in Australia in 2020-21.
He didn’t fairly have the crystal ball working earlier than the T20 World Cup when he mentioned Australia would beat India within the ultimate, he did say: “You just can’t rule out England.”
