The buck stops with Ponting
If Australia are to regain their No.2 standing, Ricky Ponting must be given more power to determine who the national coach, selectors and support team will be, writes Dean Jones in the Age
Kanishkaa Balachandran
25-Feb-2013
If Australia are to regain their No.2 standing, Ricky Ponting must be given more power to determine who the national coach, selectors and support team will be, writes Dean Jones in the Age. Ponting needs to get more ruthless in his demands and needs people around him who will listen.
Ponting needs to assess if the team's structures are balanced and in the right place. Does he need to have four full-time selectors? Or does Ponting need only three selectors, with himself being a selector? Having Tim Nielson as a selector can only cause problems, as players would struggle to be honest and candid with him on how they are travelling. They would be frightened it would end up on the selection table.
Kanishkaa Balachandran is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo