Nasser Hussain Picks Ricky Ponting As New England Coach And Ben Stokes As New Test Captain

Former England skipper Nasser Hussain has named his picks for England National Cricket Team’s new director of cricket, head coach and Test captain.

England have been going through a horrible run in Test cricket since last year and they recently lost a series against West Indies after a poor batting display by the team in the final Test.

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Meanwhile, Nasser Hussain has said that he wants to see his Sky Sports colleague Rob Key become the new director of cricket of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). Hussain mentioned that Rob has young kids who play cricket and he understands the game “from the bottom up.”

“He always speaks sense – off the camera as well as on it. He won’t do fancy PowerPoint presentations or use management speak, but he has the ear of the players and he understands what they have to deal with,” Hussain wrote in his column for the Daily Mail 

“Often, he will come off a commentary stint and get a couple of messages from county players saying ‘thanks for appreciating what we’re going through’. I think it also helps that he has young kids who play the game; he understands it from the bottom up.”

There is no finer brain in cricket at the moment than Ricky Ponting – Nasser Hussain

Hussain said that there is no finer brain in cricket at the moment than legendary Australian captain Ponting. He added that the spilt coaching system should be followed in England where Ponting takes the charge of the Test team and Paul Collingwood becomes the ODI and T20I head coach.

“For me, there is no finer brain in cricket at the moment than Ricky Ponting, who reads the game so well. The new coach has to be someone the players respect; the dressing room has been a bit too nice in recent years,” he added.

“And, my goodness, if the batters in that England team aren’t going to listen to what Ponting has to say about technique, then why are they playing the game? Not all greats of the game become good coaches because they’re not sure how to get their message across. Ponting doesn’t have that problem.”

“But because I can’t see him wanting to commit to a year-round gig – if he wants to commit at all – then we have to split the role. And there’s no reason why Paul Collingwood can’t be in charge of the white-ball team.”

Former England captain feels that the star all-rounder Stokes is the best candidate for captaincy and he has got a good cricketing brain. He also said that the veteran pacer Stuart Broad can take over the captaincy if England want a short-term solution.

 “The best candidate is Ben Stokes – so long as he’s in the right frame of mind,” Hussain wrote.

“I’d have no doubts about his cricket brain. The way he worked out the run-chases in the World Cup final and the Headingley Test prove that. He also knows how to handle the players. When he speaks, they listen. Like Ponting, he has an aura.

“If Stokes isn’t in the right place, then England may have to consider a short-term fix, such as Stuart Broad taking over for a year or so. Again, he is someone with a good cricket brain, and he’s a winner.”

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