Ashes 2023: Ricky Ponting Shuts Down Kevin Pietersen On Live TV With Epic One-Liner. WATCH

Ashes 2023 1st Test Day 5: Aussie legend Ricky Ponting quickly shut down Kevin Pietersen on live camera.

Kevin Pietersen went ga-ga about how Root 'owned the game' with Australians 'scratching their heads' in Ashes 2023.

Source : Screengrab taken from Twitter

The ongoing England vs Australia 1st Ashes 2023 Test still remains wide open with the match evenly poised and all results possible on the fifth and final day (Tuesday), June 20th. England bowled out the visitors for 273 in 2nd innings. Chasing 281-run total for the win, Australia were 107/3 at Stumps on Day 4 and require 174 more runs for the win on Day 5. Meanwhile, senior English batter Joe Root, who scored a match-defining unbeaten ton (118 runs off 152 balls) in 1st innings, managed to make just 46 in England's 2nd innings. After end of day 4's play, during the post-match analysis, ex-England captain Kevin Pietersen went ga-ga about how Root 'owned the game' with Australians 'scratching their heads'. However, Aussie legend Ricky Ponting, who was standing alongside Pietersen, quickly shut him down on live camera.

"Joe Root owned the game. He ran the game, he was pure quality and he just owned that space, with (Australia) scratching their heads going 'what do we do?" Pietersen said.

In reply, Ponting said: "Well, he's out now. He got 40".

Watch below the viral video...

Peak alpha stuff from Punter here that @gradecricketer would be proud of:

✅ speaks only in sidemouth while looking disinterested
✅ Shuts down some waffle in one sentence
✅ Rounds down the oppositions score

RTP still terrorising England.#Ashes pic.twitter.com/TX5KXoJYQm

— Josh Conway (@BuzzConway_) June 19, 2023

Electing to bat first after winning the toss, England declared their 1st innings after scoring 393 runs for 8 wickets. Captain Pat Cummins and Nathan Lyon bagged 4 wickets apiece, while Josh Hazlewood and Scott Bowland got one wicket each. In reply to England's 393, Australia scored 386 runs in their first innings. In this way, England got a lead of 7 runs. England, in their 2nd innings, were bowled out for 273 runs.