Ricky Ponting has been chosen to appear on the front cover of the 2009 Playfair Cricket Annual, I see. This is mostly good news for England. Time and again, Bill Frindall’s cover choices tend to ruin the player’s short-term career, so bring on the Ashes.
PS: that sound you can hear is a clump of straw, [...]
Ricky Ponting believes it is “absolutely possible” that Australia can trounce England with a 5-0 Ashes clean-sweep this summer. Although Ponting didn’t quite match Glenn McGrath’s 5-0 prediction from four years ago – which turned out to be correct – …
When Mitchell Johnson’s opening spell on Day 1 was flat and insipid, Ricky Ponting responded by spelling him after only 3 overs. I was surprised and impressed. Ponting as a captain tends to let things drift. This on the other hand smacked of nimble and decesive captaincy, positively Vaughanesque, a trait I’d not associated with Ponting before. Could this be a new phase in his captaincy...
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