The Ashes: Ricky Ponting slams Joe Root for criticising bowlers' lengths, 'Whose job is it to make them change'
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The Ashes: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting said that Joe Root should have got his bowlers to change their lengths if he felt that they should have been bowling fuller in the Adelaide pink ball Test, which the visitors lost by 275 runs.
England captain Joe Root should have got his bowlers to change their lengths if he felt that they should be bowling fuller, former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has said. Root said that his bowlers should have been "braver" and bowled fuller and Ponting said that the onus was on the 30-year-old to ask his bowlers to change their lengths during the match.
"I nearly fell off my seat when I heard that," Ponting told cricket.com.au website. "Whose job is it then to make them change? Why are you captain then?
