Harry Brook is a fantastic bat but seriously WTAF was he thinking here given how crucial this pship is Ricky Ponting AO sums it up on 7Cricket "That is the worst batting I've ever seen". Yep absolutely ridiculous batting #Ashes2025 #Ashes #AUSvsENG

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Brook is not ‘fantastic’. He is a T20 batter shooed into the test side. I’ve been watching cricket go over 50 years, this is the first time I’m actually embarrassed for them.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket We can agree to disagree He averages 55 in test cricket .. he's far from just a t20 cricketer

@rdeacon977 @RickyPonting @7Cricket Would love to see his stats against sides with a quality bowling attack as that 55 feels very over the top for what he produces in the big moments

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@RickyPonting @7Cricket And he’s done it again (silly shot) and he is goneeeee

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Can we stop with this OMG Brook is fantastic.. please the bloke is a joke! Zero accountability

@RickyPonting @7Cricket I don’t care how much ‘talent’ Brook may have, I’d drop him for the next series for that & other stupid shots he’s played this series. He might then realise you can’t keep doing it.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Leave aside batting...I think you guys didn't notice the number of catches he dropped including Khwaja in first innings bcs of which they scored 370 and in second innings also he dropped head on 99 and gave atleast 50 runs extra to Aus....He never even regrets a dropped catch

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Oh we noticed that too It happened at the Gabba as well! The difference in fielding and bowling between the sides in astronomical

@RickyPonting @7Cricket 😂😂😂😂 I hope they never change This has been so entertaining

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@RickyPonting @7Cricket Then dismissed playing a reverse sweep against the spin. He is fkn terrible

@RickyPonting @7Cricket @RickyPonting absolutely spot on moment he came to crease after few balla he’s struggling to get boundary and start playing stupid shorts. Ponting sums up very well

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Could be one of the best in the world if he had a brain and I'm from Yorkshire

@RickyPonting @7Cricket All I have ever seen him do is chew a gum and act as if he has got some 50 Test centuries and is about to hit a 150 of them more.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket The expression is “WTF” 🤣

@RickyPonting @7Cricket It's also WTAF the a standing for ACTUAL 🙄

@willminting @RickyPonting @7Cricket @grok ,what WTAF means

@berniecoen @willminting @RickyPonting @7Cricket WTAF is an acronym for "What The Actual Fuck," a stronger or more emphatic version of WTF, often used to express shock, confusion, or frustration. In the cricket context here, it's reacting to a baffling play!

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Congratulation England for #Bazzball 🤷🏻‍♂️

@RickyPonting @7Cricket As much as I love Brook, I do not think any kind of captaincy is appropriate for him given his penchant for risk-taking as a batter, something as a captain, he must/will have to forego for the sake of the team and for winning matches. Maybe, a few years later.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Thick as shit he is. Utterly fucking dense in the head.

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@RickyPonting @7Cricket Can’t take the dot ball pressure,

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Brendon MacCullum done the serious damage to English Cricket that will take years to be restored.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket On TMS all they have been saying is Lyon is teeing Brook up for the sweep shot and dismiss him. Christ man all you have to do is protect your wicket. Terrible shot selection yet again. He genuinely doesn’t give a shit

@RickyPonting @7Cricket He's leader in Chief of "The Brain-dead Batting Brigade".

@RickyPonting @7Cricket It’s just that they over prepared and over practiced. That’s all. @RickyPonting 😂

@RickyPonting @7Cricket England team are basically on a piss up winter tour at this point. They don’t care one bit about the result

@RickyPonting @7Cricket As an Australian fan even I was looking forward and told other people to watch this guy. He’s been disappointing, but all the Poms have.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Even if he hits these reverse sweeps he is wobbling around like a shopping trolley and can't run.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Rishabh pant vibes

I’d drop him, Pope and Duckett for the next test and fly in 2 or 3 Lions players. Pope and Duckett because they aren’t good enough and we need to start the search for their replacements , Brook because we’re at the stage where if we don’t punish this sort of behaviour he’ll never learn.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket That's Bazball cricket for you, they can't get out of the T20 mindset. Their game is infested with circus trickshots and seem to have forgotten that Not Getting Out is a valuable skill

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Brook is enjoying a lovely summer holiday in Australia. Our bowlers don’t even rate his wicket as a big one the way we celebrate when we get him out. #TheAshes

@RickyPonting @7Cricket It’s worked before for him so he thinks it will work again. Doesn’t have the patience to treat every ball on its merit.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket He’s a selfish player. Everyone points to his stats as if cricket is all about individual success. How many times has Brooks been the one at the end of the test grinding out the win for the team?

@RickyPonting @7Cricket @kallum_frost bring Ricky home with you lads

@RickyPonting @7Cricket And eventually got out to an equally worst shot!

@alexbozmorty @RickyPonting @7Cricket England trying to manufacture a T20 player into a test player to suit this bullshit Bazball… *Quick Look over last 3 tests* - yeah it’s going well for them 😂😂😂😂😂 and we all laughed….

@RickyPonting @7Cricket Stokes gone. Bowled by Lyon. He again gave the impression that he was bowled by the ball of the century. Stokes and his usual drama.

@RickyPonting @7Cricket IND ENG, both teams are a result of arrogant coaches who think they are thinking out of the box.....but don't realize.. The Box is in a deep deep hole.. And their times almost up #AUSvsENG #TheAshes #Ashes2005

@RickyPonting @7Cricket No he’s not a fantastic bat 😂