Hardik Pandya, Jasprit Bumrah feature in Ricky Ponting’s top 5 T20I players in the world

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting picked Jasprit Bumrah and Hardik Pandya as two of his five best T20I cricketers in the world. Even as Hardik is currently taking part in the Asia Cup 2022, Bumrah was ruled out of the multi-nation event due to a back injury.

However, Ponting went for Afghanistan’s Rashid Khan as the top T20 player in the world. The veteran reckoned that if the Afghan leg-spinner takes part in an Indian Premier League (IPL) auction, he could end up fetching the highest amount.

“I've actually gone with Rashid Khan at number one, and the reason I thought about that was if we actually had a player event in an IPL auction now and there was no salary cap, he's probably the one that's going to go for the most



amount of money,” Ponting was quoted as saying on the latest episode of The ICC Review.

At No.2, Ponting went for Pakistan skipper Babar Azam, who hasn’t had the best of times in the Asia Cup in the UAE.

“Babar Azam I'll go for at number two, simply because the number one ranked batter in the T20 game for quite a while now and deservedly so,” he stated.

Ponting went for Hardik Pandya and called him the best all-rounder in T20 cricket at the present point in time.

“He understands the game better and he understands his game better than ever before and right now he's probably the best all-rounder in the world in T20 cricket, and could potentially be in ODI cricket,” Ponting added.