Ricky Ponting believes British pacer Ollie Robinson has not looked dangerous in the Ashes so far. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes England's pacer Ollie Robinson didn't look dangerous in the Ashes as he only took the Tender wicket. The English bowler took three wickets in the second Test match of the ongoing Ashes series against Australia at Lord's. 메이저사이트

He also took five wickets in the first Ashes Test. Ponting of the ICC Review said, "I don't think he looked dangerous at all in the series. I mean, if you look at the wicket, he sends out a tailer every game. Yes, he caught Marnus (Labuschagne) in this inning here. But he caught (Nathan) Ryan and then (Josh) Hazlewood. So if he didn't get 10 and 11 out, he finishes the inning with one wicket in more than four overs."

"He's a very good bowler, and no one would have said a word about Ollie Robinson if he hadn't had all this squabbling going on in the last few weeks. And to be honest, I think everything is completely out of balance.

Ponting added: "It's something everyone enjoys talking about, some former players enjoyed jumping in and having some cracks but after all he's a skilled bowler and as you said his numbers so far in the series are actually fine."

After the first test, Australia leads the Ashes series 1-0. In the second Test match, Australia scored 416 points in the first inning, and in response, England are raising the number of strokes to 278/4 after Stump on the second day. Ponting also noted that England didn't have enough spinners, so they used the whole Shearman approach in the absence of injured spinner Moen Ali.

" Turns out, Joe Root got two wickets in the first inning anyway, and I honestly think the obvious reason they didn't is because I don't think they have good enough wickets to come in and play Test cricket," the former Australian captain added.

"They will support another symboler rather than playing another spinner. And that actually makes sense to me. Given most of their attacks here in Rod's terms, they obviously wanted Robinson, Anderson and Broad to all play. But if you play all three players and spinners, they have a lot of identification in attack. So they wanted to bring someone with an extra pace," he continued. Ponting said the selection will be decided after the game, but everything looks fine for England at the moment.

"I'm sure they wanted Mark Wood to play, ideally. He didn't fit completely, so they actually went with a tongue that looked pretty good. He has a slightly different movement. He has a front chest movement that causes the ball to swing away from right-handed players. We will judge the selection at the end of the game, but right now everything is going well considering what England are doing with the bat in the game," he added.