{"id":16327,"date":"2016-12-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/ricky-ponting-s-tough-love-for-steve-smith\/"},"modified":"2016-12-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T00:00:00","slug":"ricky-ponting-s-tough-love-for-steve-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/ricky-ponting-s-tough-love-for-steve-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Ponting\u2019s tough love for Steve Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Ricky Ponting says going under the microscope is part of being Australian captain.<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Smith copped some flak this week following Australia\u2019s close-call Test win over Pakistan &#8212; including from Mark Taylor and Michael Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, that\u2019s what comes with any major role of responsibility, whether it be in business or on the sporting field,\u201d Punter told FIVEAA brekkie. \u201cYou\u2019re there to be analysed and critiqued.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>LISTEN HERE:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/298685512&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe follow-on is almost the most over-rated thing in the modern game,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can totally understand why he didn\u2019t. He might\u2019ve wanted to give his fast bowlers a chance to put their feet up\u2026 knowing it was probably going to be really hard work to bowl Pakistan out in the last innings of that game. I can understand that side of it. I didn\u2019t see what happened with his field placements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sure Lehmann and David Saker and Steven Smith would\u2019ve all sat down on that last morning, decided which way they wanted to go, and then went out and tried to execute<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pretty sure it wouldn\u2019t just have been Steve Smith\u2019s decision, but at the end of the day you\u2019re the captain and you\u2019re the one that has to wear the positives and the negatives that come with any result that you have.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/lifestyle\/this-woman-s-in-flight-meal-looks-completely-inappropriate\"><strong>WOMAN\u2019S IN-FLIGHT MEAL LOOKS COMPLETELY INAPPROPRIATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/cricket-s-nastiest-feud-could-be-about-to-erupt-again\"><strong>CRICKET\u2019S NASTIEST FEUD COULD BE ABOUT TO ERUPT AGAIN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Ponting says going under the microscope is part of being Australian captain. Steve Smith copped some flak this week following Australia\u2019s close-call Test win over Pakistan &#8212; including from Mark Taylor and Michael Clarke. \u201cAt the end of the day, that\u2019s what comes with any major role of responsibility, whether it be in business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-16327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ricky Ponting\u2019s tough love for Steve Smith - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/ricky-ponting-s-tough-love-for-steve-smith\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ricky Ponting\u2019s tough love for Steve Smith\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ricky Ponting says going under the microscope is part of being Australian captain. 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