I don't think Ollie Robinson looked dangerous in series: Ricky Ponting

Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting believes that Englands pacer Ollie Robinson did not look dangerous in the Ashes as he has only taken wickets of tailendersThe English bowler has taken three wickets in the ongoing second Test match of the Ashes series against Australia on Thursday at Lords He had also taken five wickets in the first Ashes TestPonting in ICC Review said I dont think hes looked dangerous in the series at all I mean if you look at the wickets hes got the tailenders out in each game Yes he got Marnus Labuschagne in this innings here But then he got Nathan Lyon and then he got Josh Hazlewood So if he didnt get the 10 and 11 out then he finishes his innings with one wicket at over four runs an overHes a very skilful bowler no doubt about that and no one wouldve said a word about Ollie Robinson if he hadnt have sort of instigated this whole titfortat thats been happening over the last couple of weeks And to be honest I think the whole things been blown completely out of proportionIts something thats everyones enjoyed talking about and some of the explayers have enjoyed hopping in and having a bit of a crack but at the end of the day hes a skilled bowler and as you say his numbers so far in the series are actually okay Ponting further addedAlso Read Nasser wants Ollie to minimise offfield distractionsAfter the first Test the Aussies are leading the Ashes series by 10 In the Second Test match Australia scored 416 runs in the first innings and in response England are batting at 2784 after the stumps of the second dayPonting also mentioned that England has gone with all seamers approach in the absence of injured spinner Moeen Ali because they do not have a good enough spinnerAs it turned out Joe Root got two wickets in the first innings anyway and to be honest I think that the obvious reason that they havent picked a spinner is they think they havent got one good enough to come in and play Test cricket the former Australian captain addedThey would rather back another seam bowler over playing another spinner And that actually makes sense to me When you think about most of their attack with conditions here at Lords they wouldve definitely wanted Robinson Anderson and Broad to all play But if you play all three of those guys and a spinner then theres a lot of sameness to the attack So they wanted to bring in someone with a little bit of extra pace he continuedPonting said that selection would be judged after the end of the game but for now everything looks fine on Englands sideIdeally Im sure they wouldve wanted Mark Wood to play He wasnt quite right so they went with Tongue who looked actually quite good Hes got a slightly different action a fronton chest action that gets the ball to swing away from the righthanderWell judge the selections at the end of the game but right now everythings sort of going okay for England considering what theyre doing with the bat in the game right now he addedThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever