Ponting fears tragic finish to Warner’s Test profession

Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting fears struggling David Warner runs the chance of lacking out on the Ashes collection and his Test profession would possibly finish on a tragic observe following his extended dry run with the bat.

Ponting feels Warner would battle to discover a place within the touring Ashes squad and his Test profession would possibly simply not finish on his personal phrases.

Warner had a torrid tour of India, the place he scored 1, 10 and 15 in three innings earlier than returning house with a fractured elbow.

The left-hander has struggled within the final England tour in 2019, averaging simply 9.5.

“I’ve heard him talk before about their cycle. This current cycle will finish after the World Test Championship, which is obviously the week before the first Ashes Test and I would think all going well that they want to get David through until the end of that Test match at least,” Ponting mentioned.

“It’s up to him though. The only currency you have as a batsman is runs and if you’re not scoring any, you leave yourself open.

“It’s happened to all of us, it happened to me. When you get to a certain age and it looks like your form is dropping off slightly, then the knives are sharpened and it doesn’t take long,” he added.

Ponting feels Warner ought to have give up after scoring a double hundred within the Boxing Day Test towards South Africa in Melbourne final summer time, which was additionally his a centesimal match or after the subsequent sport at his house floor in Sydney.

“For him to finish the way he deserves to finish, the obvious thing for me was maybe to pull the pin after Sydney. He got 200 in Melbourne, played his 100th Test, played his 101 Test in Sydney, his home ground and maybe finish there,” he mentioned.

“The last thing he deserved is to be away on a tour and get into the middle of a series and get dropped and his career is over. That would be an awful way for him to finish.

“He’s a driven little man, a pretty stubborn little bugger, so we’ll see how he goes.”