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Ricky Ponting doesn't want to give any unwanted advice to his teammates but said if the boys and Captain Michael Clarke need help, he will always be accessible.
"I am just a player in the team now and if Michael or any of the boys want advice, I am just going to be there to give it to them when asked," Ponting was quoted as saying by The Australian.
"My time of being in charge - those days are over and I will just sit over in the corner and make sure I prepare well for every game, and out on the pasture if there is advice I am being asked for, I will be more than happy to give it," he said.
Ponting, however, admit that he does have some wisdom for his teammates. "One thing we can't afford to do, particularly when you go anywhere on the subcontinent, is worry too much about wicket circumstances," the former skipper said.
"In the past we have talk ourselves into what we think conditions are going to be like before we in fact started and made things ever more difficult for ourselves. There won't be any talk about that.
"We've got abundance of time to get ready; we've got five days of training before the one-dayers come around. Michael and I are not playing Twenty20, but we've got five one-dayers before the tour game. So, there is plenty of chance for us and there should be no excuse come Test time," the former skipper said.
Ponting also said that he is not ready to field in slips since he has not improved fully from the fractured finger, which he had operate on again after the World Cup.
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