'Cricket literacy rate' - R Ashwin lauds Ricky Ponting as he accurately predicts Cameron Green's dismissal in Adelaide Test

India’s ace spinner Ravichandran Ashwin is impressed with Australia’s former cricketer Ricky Ponting’s reading of the game. In the ongoing second Ashes Test, the Australian legend has been sharing his wisdom as a commentator. On day two of the second Ashes, he predicted the tactics that the England bowlers might use against Cameron Green.

Ben Stokes who was bowling the over then used a plan similar to the one stated by Ponting while commentating. Green yet again wasn’t able to make a larger impact on the team. Thus, predicting his wicket, the former Australian cricketer reckoned that the visitors will bowl him fuller and straighter and that is what Stokes did.

Just after Ponting predicted the wicket, Stokes bowled a delivery towards middle and off stump which crashed onto the top of Green’s off stump. The video of his commentary started making rounds across the social media platforms wherein the on-lookers were intrigued by the former batter’s analysis.

Ashwin who has spent considerable time alongside Ponting at Delhi Capitals in the IPL was quite impressed by this. He took it to his official Twitter account and retweeted the video. “Cricket literacy rate ✈️✈️,” he wrote while sharing the video of the same.

Ravi Ashwin praises Ricky Ponting’s analysis

Cricket literacy rate ✈️✈️ https://t.co/YiaiQa9hvE

— Ashwin 🇮🇳 (@ashwinravi99) December 18, 2021

The Indian spinner is renowned for having one of the sharpest brains in cricket. After having played under the coaching of Ponting at Delhi Capitals it is certain that he would have achieved certain opportunities to pick the former Australian cricketer’s brain.

While speaking on Cameron Green’s dismissal, Ponting had also opened up on the batter’s stance. He had said, “Look how open his stance is, there is massive back and across the movement. He is on or outside off stump with his back foot and let us have a look at where his front foot goes.

When he moves forward, he doesn’t ever get outside the line of his backfoot, which causes him to square up, that right hip is exposed and he is then playing across the line of the ball. All that I see there with his setup and footwork pattern is that he is so worried and almost scared of getting out LBW that it is all that he can think about.”