Punter eyes Oz cricket revival
Sydney, Nov. 18: Ricky Ponting is Australia’s all-time leading Test run-getter and a consummately dominant cricketer of the modern era, yet his decorated career may attract an unwanted asterisk in the coming Ashes series with England.
Ponting already holds the dubious distinction of the first Australian captain in 119 years to lose two Ashes series in England. In Ponting’s defence he is captaining an Australian team still coming to terms with the retirements of Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and Matthew Hayden, all of them immensely influential players.
In their absence Ponting, has become the bulwark of the Australian batting lineup, compiling 12,250 runs from his 148 Tests.
“There’s a lot of gloom around about this team and about Australian cricket at the moment, and we all feel a lot more positive inside the dressing room than what it probably looks from the outside,” Ponting said. “But the only way we can start changing what it looks like is to start winning games, and we’re all very aware of that.” He made 576 runs at 82.29 when Australia beat England 5-0 in 2006-07.
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