Fast bowler Peter Siddle was excluded while inexperienced all-rounder John Hastings found a berth in Australia’s 15-man World Cup squad that was annunced here Tuesday. Skipper Ricky Ponting and veteran Michael Hussey were named in the squad despite injuries. Ponting is recovering from a finger fracture while Hussey suffered a serious hamstring injury Sunday. Hussey [...]
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Hastings in Australia’s World Cup squad, Siddle dropped
January 18th, 2011 |
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England humble Australia in Ashes cricket series
January 7th, 2011 |
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Only a monsoon or a doughty Australian fight-back Friday could prevent the English cricket team giving Australia a 3-1 hiding in the Ashes series in the fifth and final Test in Sydney. The former looked a more likely prospect than the latter, with the home side still 151 runs short of making England bat again [...]
Clarke brushes off public sentiments against his appointment
December 31st, 2010 |
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Michael Clarke brushed off the strong public sentiment against his appointment as the captain and said he would use lessons learned from several years under Ricky Ponting’s tutelage to re-ignite the bumbling Australian team. Reacting to a poll conducted by The Age, Clarke said: “I think it’s part and parcel of what we do now, [...]
Ponting survives axe, CA endorses him as skipper
December 31st, 2010 |
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Despite calls for his sack getting louder everyday, Ricky Ponting looks certain to survive the axe as his deputy Michael Clarke and Cricket Australia (CA) have endorsed him as the Australian skipper after he returns from injury. CA’s chief executive James Sutherland also endorsed Ponting’s continuation as skipper upon return from his injury and quashed [...]
Injured Ponting to miss Sydney Test, Clarke may take over
December 30th, 2010 |
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Australian Test captain Ricky Ponting has been ruled out of the fifth and last Test of the Ashes series in Sydney due to a broken finger and Michael Clarke is expected to take over the reins. The selectors are expected to pick Clarke to lead but a formal announcement will be made only after directors [...]
Ponting looks good to play in Melbourne, says Clarke
December 24th, 2010 |
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Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke Friday said that skipper Ricky Ponting is almost certain to play in the fourth Ashes Test against England starting here Sunday. Clarke said Ponting felt good after a net session at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) and it will be difficult to keep him out of action on the Boxing Day. [...]
Khawaja will be a standby for Ponting
December 21st, 2010 |
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Cricket Australia (CA) Tuesday asked New South Wales batsman Usman Khawaja as a standby player for the fourth Ashes Test, if Australian captain Ricky Ponting doesn’t recover from a fractured finger. Chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch said Ponting will be fit in time for the Test, adding that Khawaja’s selection is only precautionary. “While the [...]
Australia ‘slight favourites’ to reclaim Ashes urn: Mark Waugh
December 20th, 2010 |
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Former opener Mark Waugh has said Australia’s emphatic victory in the Perth Test has made them favourites to reclaim the Ashes. The 267-run win for Ricky Ponting’s team in the third Ashes Test in Perth was made more remarkable by the fact that the home side went into the match as underdogs. Speaking on foxsports.com.au’s [...]
Ponting’s injury may allow Clarke to debut as Oz Test captain
December 20th, 2010 |
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Michael Clarke is likely to debut as Australian Test captain in the Boxing Day Test, if incumbent skipper Ricky Ponting’s fractured finger doesn’t mend in time. Australia has named an unchanged 12-man Ashes squad for the Boxing Day clash that could attract a world-record 100,000 spectators on the opening day. Ponting is confident of being [...]
‘Ponting should take inspiration from ‘morphed’ Tendulkar to resurrect his batting’
December 18th, 2010 |
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Australian skipper Ricky Ponting should take inspiration from Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar in order to resurrect his fading batting form, a noted cricket columnist has said. Ponting, who has posted scores of 10, 51, 0 and nine for an average of 23.3 in the first two Tests, managed only 12 runs in Australia’s first [...]
Ponting may be axed as captain if Australia loses Ashes
December 16th, 2010 |
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Ricky Ponting has said he may have to step down as Australian skipper if the Ashes series is lost. Defeat in Perth, would force Ponting and selectors to face the question of his captaincy head-on, but it is doubtful the selectors would replace Ponting as skipper mid-way through the series even if England goes 2-0 [...]
Ponting says decision on retaining Oz captaincy not his to make
December 15th, 2010 |
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Ricky Ponting has said that his future as Australian Test skipper is now out of his hands after a dreadful run of results have left his team on the verge of an embarrassing Ashes defeat. “Probably not a decision for me to make, is it?” Ponting replied when asked if he could stay on as [...]
Watson possible captaincy challenger to Clarke, says ex-Queensland coach
December 13th, 2010 |
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Australian all-rounder Shane Watson’s former coach at The Queensland Bulls, Trevor Barsby, believes Watson is a potential challenger to Michael Clarke’s hopes of securing Australian Test captaincy from Ricky Ponting. Clarke had taken charge of the national Twenty20 side in March 2008, but of late has been battling both form and injury. It was also [...]
Angry Ponting slams ‘technology-deficient’ TV referral system as ‘blight on game’
November 30th, 2010 |
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Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has branded the TV referral system as ‘a blight on the game’ after being denied what he considered was a fair catch in the drawn first Test of the Ashes series. The bone of contention was the decision to give England double centurion Alastair Cook not-out after being caught by Ponting. [...]
Winners deserve the real Ashes urn: Ponting
November 25th, 2010 |
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Ricky Ponting has reopened the age-old debate about where the Ashes urn is held by declaring Australia should be rewarded with the real item if they defeat England this summer. Despite originating in Australia, the urn lives at the spiritual home of cricket at Lord”s in London and series victors are presented with replica Ashes. [...]
Warne tweets his disgust over Oz selectors’ decision to drop Hauritz
November 20th, 2010 |
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Spin legend Shane Warne has criticized the Australian selectors for dropping Nathan Hauritz from the 13-man Ashes squad for the Gabba Test. Hauritz was left out of the Australian team with Tasmania’s Xavier Doherty and leg-spinning all-rounder Steve Smith named in the squad instead. Warne used his favourite medium, Twitter, to question the decision to [...]
Mark Waugh says Ponting will have win Ashes to keep Oz skipper’s job
November 11th, 2010 |
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Former Australian middle-order batsman Mark Waugh believes that if Ricky Ponting loses a third Ashes series to England, his days as captain are numbered. Ponting goes into his fourth Test series with England in charge of the Baggy Greens with one victory and two defeats to his name. Only Billy Murdoch and Percy McDonnell have [...]
Nothing can prepare England for bounce and pace of Gabba pitch: Ponting
November 10th, 2010 |
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Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has said nothing can prepare England for the bounce and pace of the Gabba when the first Test starts in Brisbane this month. The Gabba has been a fast bowler’s paradise so far this season, with not even Queensland being able to cope with their own conditions during a Sheffield Shield [...]
Clarke says he receives “lot of respect†from his teammates when he captains
November 9th, 2010 |
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Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has dismissed recent reports of a rift within the team. According to reports, Clarke’s leadership and attitude were both called into question by his teammates following the 2-1 defeat in the three-match ODI series against Sri Lanka. Clarke however said that he felt “a lot of respect†from his teammates. “For [...]
Ponting aspires to captain Australia till he retires
November 9th, 2010 |
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Ricky Ponting has said that he wants captain Australia until the day he retires, but is prepared to step aside if there is a better candidate for the job. “It”s certainly not in my contract that I”m going to be captain until I”m finished. If I consider there”s somewhere better out there for the job [...]