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Ricky Ponting was an angry man after a watered practice pitch at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium hampered the visitors' preparation. More... Wet wicket inflames Ponting October 31, 2009 Article from: The Australian AUSTRALIA'S preparations for the third limited-overs match against India tonight were stymied by a wet practice pitch at the Feroz Shah Kotla ground, infuriating captain Ricky Ponting. As the tourists pondered a broad array of team-selection permutations caused by injury and the arrival of reinforcements Graham Manou and Moises Henriques, their only training session was set back by the unavailability of one of their nominated nets. Brett Lee (elbow) and James Hopes (hamstring) will not play in the match, but that was less of a concern for Ponting than the lack of adequate training facilities. "I am very disappointed actually," Ponting said. "It seems everyone in the world except the groundsman knew we were training here at 9am. To turn up and have the wickets completely unusable is disappointing. We only have one training day and I am sure by the time the Indians get here the wickets will be fine. It is a disadvantage for us." The Australians began the series in confident style at Vadodara before a late fight by Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar gave the home side some momentum entering game two at Nagpur. There they completely dominated, taking advantage of Ponting's decision to allow them to bat first. India could run away with the seven-match series if they can win on the painfully low, slow pitch at the Kotla. Ponting said the Australians still had the chance to peg the Indians back but had to do so now. "It's a big game for us," he said. "Although we were soundly outplayed the other day, the positive of that was we were one-nil up in the series as it was, so we're back to level-pegging now, back to a five-match series really. "They are a good side when they're confident, there's no doubt about that, but the confidence thing can change over to over in 50-over cricket, game to game." Squads: India: MS Dhoni ©, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Gautam Gambhir, Yuvraj Singh, Suresh Raina, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Harbhajan Singh, Ashish Nehra, Munaf Patel, Sudeep Tyagi, Praveen Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Amit Mishra. Australia: Ricky Ponting ©, Shaun Marsh, Shane Watson, Michael Hussey, Adam Voges, Cameron White, Graham Manou, Moises Henriques, Mitchell Johnson, Nathan Hauritz, Peter Siddle, Jon Holland, Ben Hilfenhaus, Doug Bollinger.

[Mamu]

DDCA is a f**king shame to our Cricketing Structure. It cannot do a single thing right. I hope Delhi gets banned from hosting any games for a long bloody time.

[Desi Cartman]

Pathetic

[Sachinism]

The groundsman has supposedly said, they didn't expect Australia to train in the morning, as far as they knew Australia were to train at the same time as India in the afternoon. Don't know how much truth their is in that. Its kinda pathetic something like this would happen, can't something else be done about it, couldn't they have trained elsewhere?

[sandeep]

I kinda like it - anything that pisses off dubya jr is a good thing in my book :--D :punter:

[Sachinism]

I kinda like it - anything that pisses off dubya jr is a good thing in my book :--D :punter:

Its good in that sense, but I'd rather not have excuses from them after we kick some ass

[The Outsider]

I kinda like it - anything that pisses off dubya jr is a good thing in my book :--D :punter:

In a perverse sort of way I agree :punter:

[DomainK]

I kinda like it - anything that pisses off dubya jr is a good thing in my book :--D :punter:

Yup. Great to piss off Punter. But not at the cost of us looking bad.

[Cricketics]

Anymore Forest Fire in Australia??? call 1-800-DDCA

[Mr. Wicket]

If the pitch is dry, Ponting whines and complains about it being unsporting. If it's too wet, he whines. Maybe he should pass on captaining Australia as nobody can make pitches that please him, and become a groundsman instead.

[Mamu]

The groundsman has supposedly said, they didn't expect Australia to train in the morning, as far as they knew Australia were to train at the same time as India in the afternoon. Don't know how much truth their is in that. Its kinda pathetic something like this would happen, can't something else be done about it, couldn't they have trained elsewhere?

Dude you dont use terms "Supposedely" and "Expect" when you are hosting INternational Games. This not club cricket. If you were not sure, call the Aussie Camp and find out, How f**king hard is that? Here you go around town running naked saying how you are the 5th richest organization in the world, but the kind of shows you put up puts even a simple club cricket organization far far better. And this f**king city wants to host Common Wealth Games? God bless them.

[cowboysfan]

i dont have a lot of confidence about a good wicket being prepared for this Odi by these jokers.Delhi deserves better.

[Sachinism]

Dude you dont use terms "Supposedely" and "Expect" when you are hosting INternational Games. This not club cricket. If you were not sure, call the Aussie Camp and find out, How f**king hard is that? Here you go around town running naked saying how you are the 5th richest organization in the world, but the kind of shows you put up puts even a simple club cricket organization far far better. And this f**king city wants to host Common Wealth Games? God bless them.

Someone mentioned this earlier in a post, there was no source (well there was, but nothing I could check and confirm) therefore I said supposedly

[SachDan]

Groundsmen made a mistake and let's accept it ! At least DDCA officials should have contacted Australian management to check out their practise timings. Then again it's too much to ask from a bunch of ****ers at DDCA

[Ram]

If i were the captain of a team that came for practice and found the wickets unusable, I'd be pissed too.

[satishg]

Well he has every right to be pissed but since it is Ponting this is acceptable. :D

[nikred]

If i were the captain of a team that came for practice and found the wickets unusable' date=' I'd be pissed too.[/quote'] :punter:

[ViruRulez]

It was DDCA's mistake. Sorry to say but Kotla and DDCA are becoming worse with time. It has really lost a lot of the reputation. Not surprising that Veeru, Gauti and others were a bit pissed off with DDCA. Frankly speaking Kotla is not a good ODI or T20 wicket anymore and I dont see many matches held at Kotla from next series onwards. Lets hope that the Commonwealth games stadiums can be used for cricket as those are gorgeous stadiums and might be very good for cricket too.

[jf1gp_1]

why do such things only happen in Delhi ? doesnt matter what sport or event; delhi is never ready

[Mamu]

Everytime a Ground does anything stupid they should be heavily fined like no hosting of matches for 2 years. ANy Crowd Triouble, Ticketing Problems, Preparations etc. etc.