Rohit Sharma is an ideal captain: Ricky Ponting

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New Delhi. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has described Rohit Sharma’s role as important for India’s excellent performance in the World Cup and has also called him an ‘ideal captain’.

India have made a great start to their 2023 World Cup campaign with impressive wins over five-time champions Australia, Afghanistan and arch-rivals Pakistan.

Three wins have taken the Rohit-led team to the top of the table. Rohit Sharma has played an important role in this brilliant performance of India. Be it batting or captaincy, the Hitman seems to be in great form.

Ponting told the ICC, “Rohit is very calm. He is very calm in whatever he does. You can also see it in the way he plays. He is also a very calm batsman and inside the field And he’s like that on the outside too.”

Rohit Sharma has taken over the captaincy of India after Virat Kohli in both white ball formats from December 2021.

Ponting claims that Rohit is the right captain for India as they compete in major competitions on their home turf, allowing Kohli to focus on his key batting role.

India last won the Cricket World Cup when the tournament was held across three countries in 2011. India had defeated fellow hosts Sri Lanka at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai.

Two-time World Cup winning captain Ricky Ponting feels that this time the trophy is going to come to India.

(IANS)

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