Australian cricketing legend Ricky Ponting has described emerging batsman Will Pucovski as the best young player in the country.
Pucovski won his maiden call-up to the Test squad for the upcoming series against Sri Lanka after averaging 49 from his eight first-class for Victoria, highlighted by scores of 188 against Queensland and 243 against Western Australia.
Ponting has tipped the 20-year-old to make his debut against the Sri Lankans tomorrow afternoon in Brisbane.
“He’ll be incredibly excited and I’m sure he’ll be a little bit nervous as well with the lead up to what could potentially be his first Test,” Ponting told SEN Breakfast.
“If Will (Pucovski) was going to play you’d like to think he’d been told by now just to give him as much time as possible to get his head around the situation that he’s going to be confronted with hopefully tomorrow night.
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“I actually think he plays. As soon as he was named in the squad, I thought that he would play and that they would give him an opportunity probably batting at No.6 in these two Tests against Sri Lanka.
“He’s someone who has been spoken about for a couple of years as quite clearly the best young player that we’ve got in Australia.”
The day-night Test gets underway on Thursday and you’ll hear every ball LIVE on 1116 SEN.
Listen to Ricky Ponting's chat on SEN Breakfast with Tim Watson and Sam Edmund in the player below