Ricky Ponting has flagged a career as a coach when his playing days finally come to an end. The 38-year-old former Australian skipper has said he wants to play on until next year’s Ashes series in England.
But the mentoring role he is performing with Tasmania as he tunes up for this summer’s Tests against South Africa and Sri Lanka has him looking further ahead.
“I’ve got a great interest in teaching but also in working out what it is that makes players get to the next level, what turns good state players into very good international players,” he told reporters in Hobart.
“I’m intrigued by a lot of that stuff that goes on in the head and goes on with technical stuff around our game.”
Ponting said he was unsure whether a head coaching job would suit him, but he would be interested in a mentoring role in the future.
“I think I’ve got a pretty good eye for those sorts of things, having to find a way myself to stay good enough to play international cricket,” he said.
“A lot of the things that I’ve had to change, some of these young blokes now will have to work on things like that as well.”
Ponting is likely to play the Tigers’ first four Sheffield Shield matches and the one-day games attached to them and will play for the Hobart Hurricanes in the Twenty20 Big Bash League.
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