Life after leadership
Ricky Ponting spoke to Jesse Hogan, of The Age , about how he is adjusting to life after captaining Australia for so many years
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
Ricky Ponting spoke to Jesse Hogan, of The Age, about how he is adjusting to life after captaining Australia for so many years. Here's an anecdote from Australia's tour of Bangladesh, Ponting's first series after his resignation.
''I wasn't told that I wasn't in the leadership group any more, basically,'' he told The Saturday Age this week. ''We had the first meeting of the tour … it was about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and I was ringing around trying to get the coach or manager to find out if I was expected to be there. I couldn't get in touch with them … so I just went down and pulled the door open and they were sitting in there.
''Of course, everyone came and apologised later saying, 'We should have let you know'. It wasn't that I was [expecting to be included], I just didn't want to be doing the wrong thing … for a meeting I might have supposed to have been in.''
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo