{"id":342489,"date":"2025-12-12T05:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342489\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:49:13","slug":"ricky-ponting-explains-viral-commentary-moment-during-jofra-archer-and-steve-smiths-fiery-gabba-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/342489\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Ponting explains viral commentary moment during Jofra Archer and Steve Smith\u2019s fiery Gabba exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian cricket great<\/a> and star commentator Ricky Ponting has explained his viral moment in the commentary box during the explosive encounter between England bowler Jofra Archer and Steve Smith.<\/p>\n

As the Gabba Test concluded, things became heated in the middle of the ground when Archer fired up and veteran star Steve Smith retaliated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Ricky Ponting on fire during Archer-Smith clash.<\/p>\n

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Smith came out to bat at No.4 with only 24 runs left to get as Archer started breathing fire with 150km\/h thunderbolts coming out of his hand.<\/p>\n

Smith slapped him for two boundaries and a six in the ninth over of the innings, and that\u2019s when Archer decided to verbally sledge Smith.<\/p>\n

The Aussie stand-in skipper came right back at Archer, and Ponting \u2014 watching on from the Channel 7 commentary box \u2014 sprung into action.<\/p>\n

\"SteveSteve Smith and Jofra Archer exchange words at the Gabba. Credit: Channel 7<\/p>\n

\u201cI like it, I like it,\u201d Ponting began, in what is now a viral moment which has since be copied by the famous Shepmates (comedians Archie and Miles Shepherd who make lip-syncing re-enactments of famous commentary moments).<\/p>\n

\u201cJofra\u2019s finally come to life, six days into the series, when the second Test match is gone \u2014 he starts chirping. Too late for that, champ,\u201d Ponting continued.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s what Smithy said to him as well, \u2018Bowling quick now, mate, when the game is over \u2014 good on ya\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow they\u2019ve all started. Too late, boys. You\u2019ve had your chance for four days.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou haven\u2019t been good enough, (and) it\u2019s too late to start.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now Ponting has explained why he also called Archer \u201cchamp\u201d and how the whole situation got him fired up as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I \u2018championed\u2019 him, I could actually hear what Steve Smith had said to him in the stump mic,\u201d Ponting said on SEN.<\/p>\n

\u201cSmithy said champion, and then that\u2019s just what came out of my mouth, but it just got me going and got the hairs on the back of my neck standing up.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere haven\u2019t been many games that I\u2019ve commentated that I wish I was back playing again. But I wished I was out there the other night as part of that, because that\u2019s what you miss and that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ponting believes Archer\u2019s antics when the match was so close to the end were embarrassing.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe just embarrassed himself, and he embarrassed his team the other night, that\u2019s what I make of that,\u201d Ponting said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo bowl his fastest spell ever in Test cricket, when Australia\u2019s chasing 60 \u2026 it (the fast spell) has been there the whole time, it\u2019s been up his sleeve, and England have needed him to do it, and he hasn\u2019t been willing to do it.<\/p>\n

\u201cDay 3, when they needed him to do it, he rocks up with his pillow under his arm, and that was always going to be a bad day for England from that moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs soon as anyone saw that it was going to be \u2018OK, there\u2019s their mindset for the day. They\u2019re just going to rock up and Australia\u2019s going to fall over and we\u2019ll bowl them out\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, that doesn\u2019t happen against Australia, it doesn\u2019t happen in Ashes cricket.\u201d<\/p>\n

Archer was also slammed by Matthew Hayden for bringing a pillow to the Gabba on Day 3.<\/p>\n

\"JofraJofra Archer brought a pillow to the Gabba on Day 3. Credit: Channel 7<\/p>\n

\u201cSorry, but that\u2019s a shocking look. If I was a batsman, I tell you what I would be doing, I would be digging in… Forever!\u201d Hayden said on Channel 7.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would be exactly what you need as a batsman.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would be looking over that and saying, \u2018you will never sleep in that, not any part of this day are you going to see that, not even in the night\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

– With Harrison Reid<\/p>\n

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