"I'm surprised Dravid took the coaching job." Ponting talked about a surprise offer from India in this chat with the lads from The Grade Cricketer.
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00:00Rahul Dravid has just taken over from Ravi Shastri in India, people mentioned you in
00:05Dispatches for that gig.
00:06Did you look at that job?
00:07Does that job appeal?
00:08Would that job appeal to you?
00:09I had a couple of conversations with some people during the IPL about it.
00:13The people that I spoke to were pretty hell bent on trying to find a way to make it work.
00:18I'm surprised that Dravid's done it as well.
00:30It's exactly the same, the exact same amount of time but I'm living in India for 300 days
00:35a year.
00:36I don't do it for work, I do it for fun.
00:41I like it, I like the excitement that, when you're doing something, it's different.
00:44I do it for fun.
00:45I don't do it for competitions or anything, I don't do it for nothing.
00:49I enjoy it.
00:50I admire the work that people do, I admire the passion that you place in there.
00:56but I'm living in India for 300 days of the year,
00:58which, yeah, look, I had a couple of conversations
01:01with some people during the IPL about it.
01:04You know, the people that I spoke to
01:06were pretty hell-bent on trying to find a way
01:09to make it work, because the first thing I said
01:11was I just can't, you know, I can't give up that time.
01:14I've got other, that means I can't coach in the IPL.
01:17I'd have to give up seven stuff in the summer.
01:19Like, it just can't work.
01:21But, you know, it's nice to have people
01:23that think that you might be able to do these big jobs,
01:25but there's a lot more to come with it
01:28than just saying yes or no to a coaching gig.
01:30If Ricky Ponting coaches India,
01:32oh, that's, I'm sorry, that's me.
01:35I mean, I love you, I'd do anything for you.
01:36I've already said that, but.
01:38I'm surprised that Trav has done it as well,
01:39because there was a lot of chat about how happy he was
01:42in his under-19 role, I think,
01:43or his academy role that he had,
01:45and I'm not sure much about his family life,
01:47or what he's got, but I'm pretty sure he's got youngish,
01:49at least one anyway, and so I'm surprised that he took it.
01:51But, you know, I think, as I said,
01:56the people that I spoke to are pretty,
01:57they were gonna make sure they got exactly the right person
02:00so they've been able to convince Trav to do it.
02:02I think they were just exhausted.
02:10Yeah.
02:11I mean, their run, what they've had,
02:13and you've got to understand where they've been.
02:14I mean, their whole country's been in lockdown, right?
02:16So, and then they've, last year's IPO in the UAE,
02:21they went straight back home,
02:21they played their domestic cricket at home.
02:23They then went to England in between this,
02:25they come from England,
02:26straight into another bubble in the UAE, play there,
02:28they go straight into the World Cup.
02:30They've got New Zealand, I reckon, about two days after.
02:32Two days after, yeah.
02:32Two days after the World Cup.
02:33That's a funnel, yeah.