Ganguly axing will be interesting: Ponting
Posted on Sep 13, 2008 at 17:58 | Updated Sep 14, 2008 at 10:37
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Dubai: The Aussie captain Ricky Ponting has an acid test coming up with the tour to India, leading a new-look side. And as he chatted with CNN-IBN's Roma Khanna, Punter expressed surprise at Sourav Ganguly's omission from India's lead-up to the series, besides putting the onus on both teams to maintain the Spirit of the Game during the upcoming series.
Ricky Ponting: I am doing okay. I had some six weeks off for after the wrist injury and from last week I have started batting again. So, it is coming along pretty well.
CNN-IBN: Are you ready for the Indian challenge?
Ricky Ponting: Yes, we are all looking forward to it. It is obviously a great place to play cricket and Australia have really enjoyed touring India. We know that we are going to get a great contest. India are a very good cricket team and whatever we saw in Australia during last summer, it pretty much guarantees that the upcoming series is going to be a good series.
CNN-IBN: A lot of people have been saying that the Indian middle-order who haven’t performed well in the Tests series against Sri Lanka, are probably be low on confidence. Do you agree with that assessment?
Ricky Ponting: Series to series is a different thing. You can go through one series not doing very well but in the start of the next series, you can start off and make a big score and suddenly you are back on track again. That is what cricket is all about. Things can change so quickly in the game.
But one thing that I have noticed is that Sourav hasn't been named in the initial squad and that I think is going to be interesting for me and during the tour.
But some of the Indian team over the next 12 months are probably going to be going through a sort of a re-building. It will be interesting to see how they stand up with no Tendulkar, Dravid, Laxman not being around. But they are there for this series and we are going to make sure that we get better of them under their condition.
CNN-IBN: Do you think that this time around the Test series is going to be a little less acrimonious?
Ricky Ponting: I know that there is going to be huge build up to this Australia-India Test series, especially after the last summer in Australia. Media will be all out there and the things will be all over the place. But it is up to us players to make sure that we do the right things about the game and hopefully put up a good spirited performance before the fans.
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Posted By Vidhushak !
Ricky is \"fishing\" in troubled waters, as would his buddy Andrew Symmonds would do .. Niranjan .. Ratnakar Shetty ..
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Posted By l ramakrishnan
sourav given a raw deal by dhoni,kumble n co.kumble has taken his revenge,but i dont understand dhoni..perhaps he is so
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