England had a poor season in the T20 World Cup and Matthew Mott resigned as England’s white-ball head coach after they failed to qualify for the finals of the T20 World Cup 2024. Since his resignation, a lot of names have surfaced for the role, including Kumar Sangakkara, Andy Flower and Ricky Ponting. While Sangakkara previously confirmed that ECB hasn’t reached out to him and the rumours regarding Flintoff have died down, Ponting too has ruled himself out now.

“No, I wouldn’t ever consider doing that actually. I’m on record saying that international jobs for me right now are not really where my life is at as there’s just so much more time taken up with an international job. I’ve got other commitments as well, with my TV work and things that I do and also trying to balance that out with having a decent amount of home time, which I haven’t had much of the last couple of years anyway,” Ricky Ponting has said in the recent episode of the ICC review.

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“Coaching other international teams is one thing, coaching England for an Australian is probably something slightly different, but right now there’s sort of enough on my plate as I’ve got a bit more coming up in the next couple of months in the UK. Australia’s got some white-ball stuff coming up over there which I’ll go and commentate, so no, right now if my name was on the list they can actually take it off,” he further added.

However, Ricky Ponting previously revealed that BCCI had reached out to him with the offer to be the head coach of the Indian team after Rahul Dravid’s tenure ended. However, the legendary Australian cricketer denied the offer as even then he was not interested in international jobs as well. Notably, former India player Gautam Gambhir has taken over the role.