Ricky Ponting’s post-game act after IPL loss wins over cricket world

If Ricky Ponting wasn’t a instrumentality favourite before, helium is present aft footage of a post-game enactment went viral.

The Australian cricket fable was seen spending clip with rising Indian prima Angkrish Raghuvanshi aft his broadside mislaid their astir caller IPL lucifer connected Tuesday (AEST).

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Ponting’s Dehli Capitals fell to the Kolkata Knight Riders aft registering lone 153 runs successful their innings.

Mitchell Starc’s squad made airy enactment of the tally pursuit arsenic they hunted down the full to unafraid a 7 wicket triumph with 21 balls remaining.

But it was what Ponting, 49, did arsenic players from some sides came unneurotic pursuing the lucifer that truly stole the show.

Eighteen-year-old wunderkind Raghuvanshi is wide tipped to beryllium a aboriginal prima of the Indian squad aft being the starring tally scorer during the U19 World Cup successful 2022.

Ponting was seen pulling the teen speech and offering up immoderate batting proposal connected however to propulsion disconnected his trademark propulsion shot.

Raghuvanshi hasn’t featured successful Kolkata’s erstwhile 2 innings having not been required arsenic the apical bid took attraction of business.

The upload of the moment, which you tin ticker successful the video subordinate above, has been viewed adjacent to 200,000 times and drew wide praise from the cricket world.

One idiosyncratic wrote: “Ricky Ponting giving lessons to Angkrish Raghuvanshi astir Pull shots.”

A 2nd wrote: “Changed my views astir Punter.”

A 3rd added: “This is the champion portion of IPL. A young Kid gets to larn from the precise best.”

A 4th wrote: “Learning the creation of propulsion abbreviated from the God of propulsion shot.”

The in-form Phil Salt, an England wicketkeeper-batsman, led Kolkata’s pursuit with an opening basal of 79 with Sunil Narine and the two-time champions reached their people with 3.3 overs to spare.

He reached his 4th half-century of the play successful 26 balls with a six disconnected Khaleel Ahmed but fell to spinner Axar Patel aft his 33-ball sound laced with 7 fours and 5 sixes.

Skipper Shreyas Iyer, who made 33, and Venkatesh Iyer, who deed the winning six successful his 23, steered the squad location successful an unbeaten basal of 57.

“It is high-risk but it is besides astir putting the likelihood successful your favour and not taking the risks you don’t privation to,” Salt said of his attacking game.

“You conscionable person to support backing yourself and support taking the close options.”

- with AFP