{"id":215170,"date":"2025-10-21T09:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215170\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:50:07","slug":"ricky-ponting-doesnt-want-to-hear-virat-kohli-say-ive-achieved-everything-the-one-thing-i-dont-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/215170\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Ponting doesn’t want to hear Virat Kohli say ‘I’ve achieved everything’: ‘The one thing I don’t like\u2026’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Virat Kohli<\/a>‘s return to international cricket was like a firecracker that never went off. The former India captain looked rusty \u2013 and expectedly so, having been away from top-flight competition \u2013 and had his stay cut short in Perth by Mitchell Starc<\/a>. Although Kohli didn’t get out nicking behind, he slashed at a wide delivery to be caught at point, walking off for an eight-ball duck<\/a>. In all probability, this is his last tour of Australia. India doesn’t have another tour Down Under as per the current FTP, which runs up to the start of 2027 \u2013 the year of the World Cup, and Kohli, who has a solid record against the Aussies in Australia, wouldn’t want to return empty-handed.<\/p>\n

\"Virat Virat Kohli registered an 8-ball duck in Perth on his international cricket comeback(AFP) <\/p>\n

In fact, Ricky Ponting<\/a> wants Kohli to return from Australia with as much as he can achieve. In an interview with Fox ahead of the start of the 1st ODI at Perth, Kohli spoke about how fresh he feels having taken a long break, but the fact that he registered his maiden ODI duck in Australia didn’t quite back it up. Ponting insists that he wants to see the same hunger from Kohli and not rest on his previous laurels, especially now that so much is being spoken about his place in India’s squad for the next World Cup.<\/p>\n

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“The one thing I don’t like hearing from anyone is that ‘I’ve achieved everything in the game’ because I think you still have to have some really short-term goals and not just be hanging on to try and get through to the 2027 World Cup,\u201d Ponting said on the ICC Review.<\/p>\n

“Virat’s always been a highly motivated person. And I’d like to think that he’s probably sat down and even just given himself some goals and things that he can achieve in this series here in Australia and not be just waiting and killing time for that next World Cup to come around.”<\/p>\n

From Perth, the Indian team has landed in Adelaide for the second ODI, and neither Kohli nor Rohit Sharma<\/a> would have loved any other city than the Adelaide Oval to bat next. Like Kohli, a huge question mark hovers over Rohit’s ODI future as well, and while the 2027 World Cup is two years away \u2013 as BCCI’s chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar has repeatedly pointed out \u2013 writing off either of the two legends would be foolish, reminds Ponting.<\/p>\n

“Finding your rhythm and tempo is the biggest thing. When you’ve had a break, just getting back used to the rhythm and the tempo of the 50-over game again, it takes a little bit of time for anybody. I’d expect to see both those guys bounce back into it pretty quickly. As I said, Adelaide is a great place to bat and a great place to play cricket. But it won’t be easy for the fact that they are facing some of the best white-ball bowlers that have ever played the game. So, the challenge is definitely there,” added Australia’s two-time World Cup-winning captain.<\/p>\n

“But I say it all the time, you don’t write off champion players ever. And these two guys have been two of the best, and while I’m on record saying I think Virat’s the best 50-over player I’ve ever seen, you don’t write them off. They’ll find a way to contribute and win games for their team, and if they do that, then they’ll most likely be in that World Cup team in 2027.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virat Kohli‘s return to international cricket was like a firecracker that never went off. The former India captain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,28866,92521,92520,92522,92519,101,56,54,55,15624],"class_list":{"0":"post-215170","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-kohli","10":"tag-kohli-ponting","11":"tag-ponting","12":"tag-ponting-kohli","13":"tag-ricky-ponting","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-unitedkingdom","18":"tag-virat-kohli"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}