Glenn McGrath was the hardest player to captain: Ricky Ponting

41-year old Ricky Ponting is considered to be one of Australia’s toughest captains of all time. Under the captaincy of Ponting, Australia reached their highest highs, points they did not expect to reach under any given circumstances. However, Ponting as did Michael Clarke did not have the best of times as captain of the Australian side.

Speaking about the toughest person he had to captain, Ricky Ponting thought a bit heard before revealing the name of former pacer Glenn McGrath. Although the Punter said it as a bit of a joke, he said that McGrath was the toughest to captain. While some of the former cricketers have taken up commentary duties for the highly rated series, the likes of Ricky Ponting and Michael Vaughan have been analyzing the series away from the ground.

“I’m going to make a bit of a joke of it – Glenn McGrath was the hardest player for me to captain,” he was quoted as saying on the Cricket Australia website.

However, the former Aussie skipper said that McGrath was one of the best when it came to executing plans. The former pacer always got the job done each time he was given the ball from the skipper.

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He said, “Everyone will sit back and think that he’s the easiest, that you give him the ball, he comes on and he’d do a job for you. And yes, that’s right, but at some stage, you had to try and get the ball off him as well.”

The Cricket Australia website quoted him as saying, “I’d tell him ‘that’s enough mate, have a rest’ and for the next 10 or 15 minutes he’d be walking around with his sleeve over his mouth calling me every name under the sun.”

“He’d stand down at fine leg and he’d be abusing all the crowd just because he wasn’t bowling,” he said.