Australia information – Ricky Ponting backs Jake Fraser-McGurk to play Take a look at cricket for Australia

“Completely,” Ponting informed journalists in Melbourne. “Simply as a result of the ability that he is were given. And we have observed with different avid gamers previously, even like a Shahid Afridi or one thing like that, that got here at the degree as an ultra-talented ball-striking 17-year-old that may bowl legspin and prior to you comprehend it, he is almost definitely performed [27] Take a look at suits.

“If you have that type of ability you wish to have to be uncovered to cricket on the very best stage to paintings it out. And I feel Jake can do this but. I am surely backing someday to play Take a look at cricket.”

“I used to be on list in the beginning of the summer season announcing I feel he is anyone that may be neatly and actually fast-tracked throughout the Australian device,” Ponting mentioned. “For the reason that herbal ability that he is were given rings a bell in my memory a bit of of David Warner’s creation into Australian cricket. After we noticed [Warner] in the beginning, I feel everybody doubted whether or not he was once going to be excellent sufficient to play Take a look at cricket technically.

“However with the ability and the talent that he had, which I feel Jake has were given as a lot ability as what Davey had coming via, then I feel the sooner they are able to get him into the device and get him taking part in and let him determine for himself one of the simplest ways to have good fortune in all of the other codecs, I feel it’s going to be nice for Australian cricket.”

There are some variations between the trips that Warner and Fraser-McGurk have had in progressing throughout the Australian cricket pathway.

Warner famously performed T20I and ODI cricket for Australia prior to he performed a firstclass sport. His T20I, ODI and top notch debuts all got here after his twenty second birthday.

Warner then made 960 runs at a median of 60 in his first 11 top notch suits, together with two Sheffield Defend centuries for New South Wales and a 211 for Australia A towards a Zimbabwe XI prior to making his Take a look at debut at 25.

However Ponting believes Fraser-McGurk has already made large leaps in his sport and is able to take on world cricket.

“I am not positive he had an actual transparent plan or thought of what the most efficient model of himself was once and the way he had to play [with Victoria],” Ponting mentioned. “However what I have observed since he is moved to South Australia in Defend cricket and one-day cricket for them after which what he delivered to the Renegades this yr, I feel it is beautiful transparent now the best way that he needs to move about it and play his cricket.

“Now he would possibly must mood that and alter that right here and there at other occasions in several scenarios and in several codecs of the sport. However I feel if in case you have that ability, I feel he can do this. So he is a in reality thrilling younger bloke that I am taking a look ahead to seeing him increase over the following couple of years.”

“Clearly, there may be simplest such a lot of other folks you’ll be able to pick out within the Global Cup squad, is not there,” Ponting mentioned. “He’s going to get different alternatives. However the extra he can get the sooner he can get them at a more youthful age, the easier it’s going to be.

“I am not announcing in any respect that he will have to were picked within the Global Cup squad as a result of they have put in combination a in reality excellent squad anyway, and one who on paper will glance as excellent as almost definitely any group going there. He’s going to must bide his time. However as we noticed the previous day, he appears beautiful willing to profit from the alternatives that he will get.”