Australia captain Ricky Ponting may not have much love for Team India but he was liberal in his praise of individuals like Sachin Tendulkar whom he placed ahead of West Indian batting great Brian Lara."I have always maintained that he (Tendulkar) at his best was fractionally ahead of Brian Lara at his best, and they are the best two batsmen I have played against," Ponting wrote in his 'captain's D
Australia will take advantage of the absence of in-form Gautam Gambhir in the Indian top order and put pressure on the new opening combination in the fourth and final Test starting here on Thursday, visiting skipper Ricky Ponting said on Wednesday."He (Gambhir) has played very well from the first Test and has given good start to the Indian team with (Virender) Sehwag. They have also run very well
Australian captain Ricky Ponting has refuted allegations that his under-pressure bowling attack is resorting to sledging to unnerve Indian bastmen in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy.Indian opener Gautam Gambhir and all-rounder Shane Watson were involved in a spat on the opening day of the drawn third Test in Delhi. Both players were pulled up by Match Referee Chris Broad, who imposed a 10 per
With 1-0 deficit in the series, Ausies would definitely give heart-out performance in third Test which gets underway in Delhi from November 02. Skipper Ricky Ponting has laid stress on his senior players to perform more than 100%. Some big names, like Matthew Hayden and Brett Lee, haven’t performed up to their potentials in the [...]
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Creator: Glu MobileScreen Size: 128x128, 128x160, 176x208, 176x220, 240x320, for Nokia N95Genre: SportRicky Ponting 2008 is the grossest cricket game always developed for mobile devices. Get the atmosphere and agitation of International Cricket with amazing graphics and interesting gameplay. And, first the game will include an unbelievable "replay" mode to see all the best action! All features and
Australia appears to have pressed the self-destructing button in the Mohali Test. According to sources in the Australian camp, there are some differences that have cropped up between skipper Ricky Ponting and pace spearhead Brett Lee.
As the Indian batsmen went on the offensive on Day 4 before lunch, Ponting used all his bowlers except [...]
Sachin Tendulkar who became the highest run scorer in Test Hisory after surpassing Brain Lara's mark of 11,953 runs was warned that the record may not be his for too long.For More Information Click Here
India restricted Australia for less than 450 in their first inning and their openers came out all guns blazing to get back into the 1st test match at M.Chinaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Both Virendra Sehwag (43 runs of 55 balls) and Gautam Gambhir (20 runs of 55 balls) came out with positive frame of mind and added unbeaten 68 runs for the first wicket before rain interrupted the today’s play.
India paceman Zaheer Khan believes Ricky Ponting's poor batting record in India is affecting the Australian captain's confidence going into the high-profile four-Test series starting next month. Ponting is one of seven batsmen to have scored over 10,000 Test runs but the 33-year-old right-hander averages just 12.28 in eight Tests in India. Ponting last week said India start as favourite
Australian captain Ricky Ponting has strongly backed all-rounder Shane Watson for the four-match Test series against India starting next month.
Ponting felt that the 27-year-old Watson's ability as a technically correct batsman and an effective medium pace bowler would have earned him a place in the playing 11 even if Andrew Symonds was a part of [...]
Australia's captain Ricky Ponting believes it is only a matter of time before Twenty20 is part of the Olympics. Just days after the completion of the Beijing Games, Ponting said it was "inevitable" the new form would become an Olympic event, given its popularity in the subcontinent.Ponting, who also called for a portion of the international calendar to be kept free for Twenty20 tournaments, was sp
Michale clarke of australia replaces ricky ponting as captain in the upcoming series versus bangladesh.Ricky ponting misses the bangladesh series due to injury so clare who is the vice captain...
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Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting underwent surgery in Melbourne today (Monday) to repair a wrist injury suffered during the third one-day international of Australia’s VB Tour of the West Indies. Ponting was reviewed by Cricket Australia (CA) medical staff in consultation with Dr Greg Hoy, a wrist specialist. “Ricky has sustained a tendon injury that requires repair of tissues that hold
Australian captain Ricky Ponting took a dig at Harbhajan Singh, saying the off-spinner has been "unmasked" by his attack on teammate Sreesanth."The (slapping) incident was him dealing with a guy that he has probably played 20 Tests with," Ponting was quoted as saying in The Herald Sun. "After this latest issue in India, I think people should be making their own judgments about Harbhajan. He has again done something wrong."Referring to earlier run-ins with Harbhajan, Ponting also said that every minor error was blown out of proportion.Harbhajan slapped Kings XI Punjab pacer Sreesanth after his team Mumbai Indians lost in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Harbhajan was banned from playing in the IPL this season and the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) is also conducting a separate
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Australian skipper Ricky Ponting hailed Adam Gilchrist for his "unbelievable" 149 after sweeping to an unprecedented hat-trick of consecutive World Cup titles on Saturday.Wicketkeeper Gilchrist scored the biggest and fastest hundred in a World Cup final to cap Australia's virtually unchallenged run through the tournament with a 53-run victory over Sri Lanka at the Kensington Oval."He hasn't played a better one," Ponting said. "To go out in a World Cup final and play 149 off 104 balls, hardly missed the middle of the bat for most of the day, it is an unbelievable innings."One of the best innings you will ever see and it was one of the best innings I have ever seen."Matty Hayden in many ways has been the batsman of the tournament and he (Gilchrist) has been at the other end looking pretty sh
Australia Captain Ricky Onting Has Confirmes His Participation in the indian premier league's inaugural Twenty20 tournament: Leading non-Indian players 'for sale' ..Australia: Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Brett Lee, Matthew Hayden, Mike Hussey, Justin Langer ..Bangladesh: Mohammad Ashraful, Mashrafe Mortaza..New Zealand: Stephen Fleming, Daniel Vettori, Jacob Oram, Brendan McCullum ..Pakistan: Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Yousuf, Shoaib Akhtar, Younis Khan..Sri Lanka: Mahela Jayawardene, Kumar Sangakkara, Muttiah Muralitharan, Sanath Jayasuriya, Lasith Malinga ..South Africa: Graeme Smith, Shaun Pollock, AB de Villiers, Herschelle Gibbs..West Indies: Chris Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Ricky Ponting faces the media after the contentious match.Ricky Ponting faces the media after the contentious match.Well-known Sydney cricket journalist Peter Roebuck has called for the head of Australian captain Ricky Ponting.In a scathing opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald today, Roebuck, a noted authority on the game, says Ponting's antics in the second test have brought shame upon the honourable traditions of all those who have worn the 'baggy green cap'.English-born Roebuck, a former first-class cricketer himself, says those at the top of Australian cricket have a responsibility to uphold the values of the game."If Cricket Australia cares a fig for the tattered reputation of our national team in our national sport, it will not for a moment longer tolerate the sort of
(If you still don't know what happened with Symond, watch the youtube Video at the end of the post)After returning to Australia, both the Ausie captain Ricky Ponting and Right Hand Batsmen Andrew Symonds who is the only black player in the Australian team issued a warning to the Aussie fans not to mis-treat the Indian players when they toured Australia later this year.“Am I against crowd participation? Definitely not, but there is a message I would like to give the Australian public and supporters of our team.” “I don’t want to see ugly chanting at the Indian players when they come to Australia later in the year,” Symonds wrote in his column yesterday that is Sunday for the Daily Telegraph. While Ponting said this: "I'd like to see the Australian fans and public treat the Indian team the same way they would any other team," "I don't think they should be treated any differently because of what's happened over there," he said which means that the fans should go ahead
A businessman from the charity event hugged and kissed the Australian Captain ferociously. He was shocked with the incident, but whatever has to happen has happened in front of full public glare. Ricky Ponting fled from the venue ASAP (Lollll). Its interesting to see how many spectators (gays only) from Bangalore now throw kisses towards Australian captain after this incident. I love the clipping which I found on you tube. Enjoy this video, Ricky Ponting on back foot!! NDTV reports
AUSTRALIA A captain Adam Voges may have big shoes to fill in India, but at least he won't have to pack his bags again. Only just touched down after leading the second-string Australians in Pakistan, the hamstring injury which has ruled Ricky Ponting out of the start of the Indian one-day tour has prompted a call-up for the West Australian. And while the 27-year old acknowledges Ponting will be almost impossible to replace against the newly crowned Twenty20 world champions, his own recent experiences should hold him in good stead. ”Ricky is one of the best players in the world no doubt, but when I get over there if required hopefully I can perform well,'' Voges said. ”I don't think it can hurt, spending three weeks over there (in Pakistan) getting used to the heat and the conditions and the pitches. ”I went pretty well, and I am confident. And my hamstrings are fine, thanks.'' With Ponting and Voges' West Australian team-mate Mike Hussey both suffering hamst
Ricky Ponting is in doubt for the Twenty20 World Championship due to "private family reasons", while Australia are also monitoring a hamstring problem for Shane Watson. The pair remained in Australia when the team flew to South Africa today, and Stuart Clark also postponed his departure to care for his ill son.
AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Ponting says rebel outfits are a danger that need to be taken seriously, warning the amount of money on offer could lure players from official tournaments such as the World Cup. Ponting wants international boards to make a stand against the breakaway Indian Cricket League, and has thrown his support behind the concept of a Champions Cricket League. Ponting is worried by signs that some boards, including New Zealand, may back players joining the ICL which has set up a Twenty20 tournament using international and domestic Indian players in competition with the board. "The concern I have is how lenient the boards are with the players," Ponting said. "I heard a whisper the other day that the New Zealanders might be going with the board's blessing because they have no cricket at that time of the year."You will have some of these guys putting on these Twenty20 events in opposition to the World Cup - we have seen that there is more money in these Tw
AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Ponting leads the nominations for this year's International Cricket Council annual awards, figuring in as many as four individual categories. The 32-year-old Ponting, who led Australia to an unprecedented hat-trick of World Cup titles in West Indies in April, is in the race to retain both the Cricketer of the Year and Test Player of the Year awards. He has also been nominated for ODI Player of the Year and Captain of the Year awards as per the preliminary list released by ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed. The shortlist was made by a five-man selection panel headed by former India captain Sunil Gavaskar for the one-year period starting from August 9, 2006. The awards function will be held in Johannesburg on September 10, a day before the start of the inaugural Twenty20 World Cup. Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene, who led his country to the World Cup final this year, and seven others are in the race for three awards each. Jayawardene, chosen Captain of t
AUSTRALIA captain Ricky Ponting expressed mixed feelings on the World Cup experience after he arrived back Down Under this morning after the Caribbean tournament.
Ponting refused to criticise the length of the tournament - its duration has been lamented by cricket fans and media around the world - but did appear disappointed with the farcical finish to the final with Sri Lanka, which Australia won by 53 runs after much madness.
"We were running around like lunatics thinking we'd won, when (umpire) Aleem Dar came over and told me, well no, actually the game wasn't over yet," Ponting said at Sydney airport this morning, where the bulk of the team arrived back on home soil.
"To be honest, I really thought he was joking," Ponting continued. "We get on pretty well, Aleem and I, and we like to have a joke now and then, but I thought this particular one was extremely poorly timed."
Of course, the Pakistani official wasn't joking, and having celebrated prem
Australian cricket team is riding on a silver cloud. They just showed the world that cricket is played by many, but only the team with passion and dedication emerges the winner.
The Aussie team displayed an all-round performance in the Cricket World Cup 2007 and dominated the event without the slightest of doubts.
Aussie cricket team is [...]
Dianna Ponting SFCA, PPC, MPAC, PSA the current President of the Federation of Canadian Artists is teaching "Pastel with Ponting" an excellent on-line class in the use of pastel right now! You can find it in "The Classroom" sub-forum of the Wet Canvas Drawing and Sketching Forum. This is an absolutely fantastic opportunity to learn about Dianna's particular approach for working with pastels.The class proper started on Monday (March 5th) and the way these classes generally work is that the tutor is present and generally active for the first two weeks - possibly longer if their time allows. The thread has already had 2,500 page loads and it's only been going since the 1st March when Dianna posted preliminary information for class - posts which are absolutely packed with excellent information and images about art materials for working with pastels. And her diagrams and descriptions of how she works in the class proper are simply fantastic!What do all those letters after her name mean
On my first weekend in California I took a pastel workshop up the coast in San Clemente with Dianna Ponting SFCA, PPC, MPAC, PSA. Dianna is the current President of the Federation of Canadian Artists. She has also been awarded the status of Master Pastellist by Pastel Artists Canada and Premiere Pastellist by the Pastel Society of Canada.The class had been booked out for some time with a number of pastellists in the southwest USA anxiously trawling for a cancellation. Everybody was quite taken with the fact that I had come all the way from England for the workshop - although I did say that I had a few other plans for my visit as well! It was great to meet all the people from Wet Canvas behind all the online names - not least my very dear friend Rosa Weitsel, who has now been officially designated by Louise and me as a 'hoot and a half'.I've never sought to emulate the pastel style of Dianna (mainly because I never thought I'd have the patience!) but am always interested to lear
