Australia legend Ricky Ponting has hosed down all rumors of him becoming England's white-ball coach. However, Ponting stated that he remains interested in coaching an IPL franchise and in T20 leagues around the world.

Matthew Mott was removed as England’s white-ball coach after poor performances in ICC World Cup 2023 and T20 World Cup 2024. Before Kiwi Brendon McCullum took the position, Ponting turned down offers from England to coach their Test team.

Recently, Ricky Ponting and Delhi Capitals parted ways ending the Australian legend’s seven-year stint as head coach of the franchise in IPL.

"No, I wouldn't ever consider doing that actually. I'm on record saying that international jobs for me right now are not really where my life is at as there's just so much more time taken up with an international job,” Ponting told ICC Review host Sanjana Ganesan when asked if he’d coach England.

“I've got other commitments as well, with my TV work and things that I do and also trying to balance that out with having a decent amount of home time, which I haven't had much of the last couple of years anyway.

Coaching other international teams is one thing, coaching England for an Australian is probably something slightly different, but right now there's sort of enough on my plate as I've got a bit more coming up in the next couple of months in the UK. Australia's got some white-ball stuff coming up over there which I'll go and commentate, so no, right now if my name was on the list they can actually take it off,” Ponting added.

The three-time ICC Men's Cricket World Cup winner recently completed a successful tournament in the United States as the title-winning coach of the Washington Freedom in Major League Cricket, and he has another year left on his contract there, in addition to his various television and commentary roles all over the world.

Ponting also hopes to return to IPL coaching.

"I'd love to coach again in the IPL. I've had a great time every year that I've been involved, whether that was in the early days as a player or the couple of years I had at Mumbai as head coach there. And then I've had seven seasons at Delhi, which unfortunately didn't really work out the way that I would have wanted and certainly the way that the franchise would have wanted. I think me going there was all about trying to bring some silverware to the team and that didn't happen,” Ponting said.

Ponting expects Delhi to take a different approach when picking their next coach, with the Australian predicting the franchise will likely hire a local.

"They made it pretty clear that they wanted to head in a different direction with someone that could give them a bit more time and a bit more availability through the off-season, really more than anything to be able to spend a bit more time in India with a lot of the local players. I just couldn't do that with the other stuff that I've got going on,” Ponting said.

"I think what you'll find is that they'll probably end up with an Indian-based head coach. Certainly, that's some of the dialogue that I've had with them anyway. But I'm really thankful for the time that I had there, met some great people, worked with some great people, and obviously worked with some great players through the years as well. So I wish them all the very best but as I said there could be a few opportunities for me popping up in the next couple of months and I'd love to be back coaching in the IPL again next season,” he concluded.

(ICC inputs)