Ponting most selfish captain in history of cricket

[DomainK]

Even Charles Colville said " It was so atrange that it times gone by there would be mutterings of match fixing" Ponting is going to be hammered for this. The aussie press on his back already, he will get slaughtered. I will enjoy reading some of the oz press reports:--D

Yes, the oz news papers will make nice reading tomorrow. It will be nice to see Ponting slaughtered by Indian bowlers and Australian media on the same day.

[Sachinism]

Australia really let India off, that changed the whole game

[Dinx - the Jinx]

Imagine Dhoni setting another 8-1 field' date=' this time on the leg side and get Mishra and Tendulkar to spin it out of the rough. [b']Ponting will start sobbing on the field.

Yes - he has the potential and is quite capable of doing that :two_thumbs_up:

[SachDan]

Even Charles Colville said " It was so atrange that it times gone by there would be mutterings of match fixing" Ponting is going to be hammered for this. The aussie press on his back already, he will get slaughtered. I will enjoy reading some of the oz press reports:--D

Can't wait to read :yay::yay: What that racist Malcolm Conn will write?? also the fact that SOB also write columns for 'The Australian'

[bharat297]

Can't wait to read :yay::yay: What that racist Malcolm Conn will write?? also the fact that SOB also write columns for 'The Australian'

The Australian is owned by News Limited, who also own The Daily Telegraph ... those arent newspapers ... theyre just a whole lot of opinionated BS. SMH is pretty bad too.

[Chalks]

Even if he has been pilloried in the press, all will be forgiven if he makes a match-winning 100 today. :vroam:

[fineleg]

Even if he has been pilloried in the press, all will be forgiven if he makes a match-winning 100 today. :vroam:

Yes, if Haydos and Punter get in murderous form today, then Aus media will start rejoicing again.

[Desi Cartman]

so whats his avg in India now ??

[King Tendulkar]

Even if he has been pilloried in the press, all will be forgiven if he makes a match-winning 100 today. :vroam:

Ponting not forgiven. Choked and run himself out:hysterical:

[Rajiv]

Sutherland to query Ponting on tactics Cricket Australia will ask Ricky Ponting to clarify his reasons for using part-time bowlers after tea on the fourth day in Nagpur when Australia had a strong chance to set up a gettable chase. Australia had to win the Test to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy and when India went to the break six down with a lead of 252, Ponting's men had a chance to go for the kill. But Ponting was behind on over rates and decided to employ the occasional medium-pace of Michael Hussey and the part-time spin of Michael Clarke and Cameron White rather than the side's strike fast men. Although the offspinner Jason Krejza was also used the lack of bite at the other end allowed India to build a hefty target of 382. James Sutherland, the chief executive of Cricket Australia, said he was keen to speak to Ponting to find out why the seemingly defensive options were preferred. "I might be concerned, I might not be," Sutherland said. "It depends on exactly getting a really clear understanding of the circumstances that ensured that we played the way we did after the tea break." Tim Nielsen, Australia's coach, defended Ponting's decisions and said he did not believe for a minute Australia were not pushing for victory. Sutherland said Ponting and Nielsen would have made "whatever judgment they thought was most appropriate", but he would like to go over the strategies with Ponting, which he said was a semi-regular part of his role. "I'm always interested in the approach that they take," he said. "It's not something I do every day but at various stages I see that it's part of my responsibility as chief executive to get a feel for that. You've only got to read the newspapers today, there were people who had concerns, had reason to comment on that, and I just want to understand a little bit more of the background." Ponting will be asked to relate to Sutherland the messages that came from the umpires during the tea break regarding how far Australia were behind in the over rates. Rarely in the four-Test series have either team got through their overs quickly enough and it is a growing trend that Sutherland believes the ICC must address. "In a broad sense, I have major concerns about over rates in international cricket," he said. "Generally speaking the public deserves more by way of over rates and it's certainly something we'll be taking up with the ICC. If we can play a little bit more cricket and get more overs in or lose less overs at the end of the day then that's probably a good thing for Test cricket."

[King]

Any chance Ponting fixed it? :winky:

[Rajiv]

Maybe its about integrity of getting a ban or something, other than that 1) Match Fix 2) Stupid - Weird for someone of his caliber 3) Underestimated India But , our lead was about 270'ish so they are 162-6, lets see if they fall under that

[King]

I'm not suggesting firmly he fixed it but after Bhajji and Dhoni had put on 40 odd runs he could have brought his part timers. It's rather silly to employ part timers against the likes of Harbhajan that has scored heaps against Aussies by his standards during this year. He could have used part timers against 9, 10 and jack don't you think? Something that puzzles me is that if he used part timers then he should have guessed they will not get these guys out. If they did then obviously they wouldn't have got opportunity to bowl enough overs to speed up the run rate? Imagine if Bhajji or Dhoni got out in the 5th over? Then obviously the part timers would not have got enough to catch up with the over rate. Using part timers just doesn't make sense to me when India were 6 down.

[Cricketics]

Maybe its about integrity of getting a ban or something, other than that 1) Match Fix 2) Stupid - Weird for someone of his caliber 3) Underestimated India But , our lead was about 270'ish so they are 162-6, lets see if they fall under that

man with 270 something.. the approach is totally diff.. hayden won't have been in that hurry.. so won't have beeen ponting.. punter just put himself in front of his country.. he was fined by broad before and didn't want to be fined again.. and hence "aao India, maaro run" attitude

[anbuchelvan]

You are mentioning about my dog!!!!.It will never be selfish.