Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting applauded Team India star Arshdeep Singh before their T20 World Cup 2026 match against Namibia. However, India will play Namibia on Thursday, February 12 in Delhi as well.

“One thing I did notice last night is actually he’s developed in his bowling a different slow ball than he usually has. He bowled like almost one that rolled out the side of his fingers yesterday like a little in-swinger type ball to a left-hander which will obviously swing a little bit across the right-hander as well. So that’s a new skill that he’s added,” Ricky Ponting said on the ICC Review Podcast.

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Moreover, Ricky Ponting considered Arshdeep Singh a highly skilled bowler. He opined on his skills of being able to move the ball both ways, his variations, and his yorkers, which made him worthy of a place in Team India’s playing XI in the T20I team as well.

“He’s a highly skilled bowler anyway. Ravi mentioned it, the fastest 100 T20 wickets, that speaks volumes for what he can do with the new ball and with the old ball. And he’s very much, like all fast bowlers, really very much a confidence and rhythm bowler. You can see, you know, you can pretty much see with Arshdeep in his run-up. You know if he’s on with the way that he’s attacking the crease and how hard he’s hitting the crease. And yeah, the skills are all there. You know, the in-swinger to the right-hand is there. The out-swinger to the right-hand is there. The around-the-wicket variations are there for him. His yorkers are as good as anybody. So he very much deserves his place in this Indian starting XI,” Ricky Ponting concluded.