“The players obviously want to be out there slogging it out over five days,” Ricky Ponting said on Channel 7. “Fans have flown all the way around the world to hopefully get five very entertaining days of cricket here at the MCG. “This one, even before a ball was bowled, the experts, the former players, they’re going ‘this is going to nip around. “It moved too much and it bounced unevenly as well, that’s why it was a two-day Test. It’s not good for the game and players don’t want two-day Test cricket.”

Source: The Telegraph December 28, 2025 06:08 UTC