Ponting starts Mind games

[DesiChap]

Ponting challenges India to show their mettle New Delhi: The Australian team is in India for the seven-match One-Day series and they have the pressure on before the first ODI match on Saturday. Ahead of the first One-Day match in Bangalore on Saturday, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has fired the first salvo saying they are the real world champions. "We know we have to play well in the subcontinent. But now the pressure will be back on the Indians because of the expectations. They are back as world champions and some of their players would be under pressure," Ricky Ponting pointed out. "India are the World Twenty20 champions and we are the world Test and world 50 overs champions. We have some 50 overs matches coming up. So that is how it will be now. I wouldn't be too carried away by the Twenty20 World Championship win," Ponting said. Fast bowler S Sreeshant countered Ponting’s claim saying: "If Australia think this series is going to be easy then they are just dreaming. All 15 of us are match winners." "They have just lost to us in the World Cup and they can never change it no matter what they do in the future. They can never change the past. What they do is important. Just by saying and talking that they will win, I can tell you it is not going to be easy for them," Sreesanth added. So the big question is who's the world champion in cricket? After the Twenty20 triumph, any Indian fan would say Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Daredevils. But Australia naturally have a different view. After the Twenty20 triumph, Dhoni's men now face a big challenge from the Aussies. The first of the seven One-Dayers will be played in Bangalore on Saturday. http://www.cricketnext.com/news/ponting-challenges-india-to-show-their-mettle/top/27177-13.html

[sachin_fan]

I am waiting to see dhoni's reply to this...