Ricky Ponting and Nasser Hussain says England, Australia and India need to do more for Test cricket | Cricket News

Despite the thrilling Ashes series, the former captains of Australia and England Ricky Ponting and Nasser Hussain feels “it doesn’t solve all the problems,” and ‘top three’, England, Australia and India, need to do more for Test cricket around the world.
“The top three… two of the top three England, India and Australia, they have been successful. They will be continue to be successful. So those three are trying to push you on but they have also got to keep an eye on the rest. It is not just about the top three,” Nasser Hussain told Sky Sports.

🗣️ “It doesn’t solve all the problems”
Nasser Hussain and Ricky Ponting discuss how the ‘top three’, England, Australia and India, need to do more for Test cricket around the world pic.twitter.com/gGGW7yyzHR
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“Its all well and good me saying on commentary ‘My big moment in Headingley. The Ashes is alive. Test cricket is alive. Have a look at other parts of the world, it’s not so alive.’

“Yes we are proud of what we have achieving and Australia and India have achieved but it will be dull if we just India, Australia and England month in and month out, year in and year out,” he added.
Ricky Ponting also weighed on Hussain’s comments and said every board across the world should take responsibility to make Test cricket more exciting.
“I think the bottomline is every board every association every team to aspire, to achieve the level of cricket that has been played here. Last thing you wanna see is boring drawn out games of Test match cricket and I think if this can prove anything to the rest of the world as far as Test cricket is concern, you can play four one-day games in a row and still win Test matches,”he said.
“I think every team, every captain, every coach can learn something from this, take that approach and pick the appropriate players to make the Test cricket more exciting,” he added.
The five-match Ashes series ended up in a 2-2 draw with Australian retaining the urn.