The Cracks Keep on Swallowing
Cracks. Dust. Dodgy pitches. They may as well all be synonyms for an Australian cricketer thinking about Indian conditions. After the ...Read More
Showing posts with label ponting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ponting. Show all posts
Same Ol' Same Ol'
So much has happened in cricket over the past months that a passive peruser of cricket media would be forgiven for thinking the sky has fall...Read More
Money Makes Your World Tick, Ricky
You can't blame Ricky Ponting for being stuck in the times of Taylor and Waugh. A man is defined by his experiences and upbringing, and ...Read More
Seriously? No Way!
He is the preordained second-most-powerful-man-in-Australia. At the very least, one could reasonably expect him to be near the forefront of...Read More
Hooking & Pulling Should Be Left To The Experts
The old curse has returned (some may argue that it never actually went away, just that it was shovelled under the carpet for long enough to ...Read More
Michael Clarke - From Vice Captain To Australia's Second Most Powerful Man
I've done my best to resist the temptation to write about this, but I can hold out no more. With all the hypocritical, holier-than-thou ...Read More
Australia v West Indies: A Marketer's Nightmare
Simply put, there is nothing about the upcoming Australia v West Indies series that would excite the reasonable woman or the average cricket...Read More
India v Australia: He Bangs, He Bangs
I was tempted to add another "he bangs" to the two above, but I decided to spare you the overkill. What is the difference between ...Read More
It Ain't Too Much Of A Good Thing
A seven match ODI series would ordinarily elicit such a label from me. Yes, ordinarily seven matches would have been pronounced two too many...Read More
Is Australian Cricket Missing The Point?
The immediate aftermath of Ashes 09 has predictably seen a flurry of opinions pertaining to everything and anything that may be wrong with A...Read More
Ashes to Ashes: The Aftermath
Well another Ashes series over and I am sure the reviews and respective post-mortems are already under way, at least for the Australian cam...Read More
It's Time To Go, Ricky Ponting
With the cricketing world appearing more like Big Brother , and less like a professional sporting environment , there could not have been a...Read More
Does It Hurt, Ricky?
Ricky, first they give you out caught when you clearly weren't in the same suburb as the ball, then they fail to pick up a ridiculously ...Read More
The 'People's Hero'. Are You Convinced?
Freddy's gone. In similar style to that in which Steve Waugh announced his retirement just prior to the India series of 2003-04, Andre...Read More
Australia Puts the Proteas Away in Straight Sets and Turn Around a Forgettable Summer
30 December 2008 – a day the Aussies would like to forget. A day that many felt would signal the end of a decade of cricketing supremacy and...Read More
Australia Caught Cheating...Again
Another year, another series and another controversy. What is it with Australian cricket that for all its vows to play hard but fair, the ...Read More
The Demise of a Giant
The South Africans have thrilled the cricketing world with a persistent, never-say-die attitude, which has re-ignited the true essence o...Read More
Simply A Matter Of Time & Genes
Modern corporations are hell bent on creating systems and processes that will outlast their best and brightest people. The South African cr...Read More
The Vultures Begin Their Feast
They lost in Mohali, but no problem because it was India and it was a fluke. They lost in Nagpur, but no problem because it was India, McGra...Read More
Ricky.Ponting@gmail.com
So it is according to this hilarious piece of work by the lads at Short Of A Length . Eulogies of Ponting's reign as captain will be pub...Read More
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