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Australian captain Ricky Ponting says Ryan Harris is set for his debut in Friday’s first Test against New Zealand, if the pace bowler can prove he has overcome a side strain.
South Australia seamer Peter George has been added to the squad as cover for Harris.
Ponting said he expected Queensland’s Harris, 30, to train at full [...]

Wellington, Mar.19 (ANI): Australian vice-captain Michael Clarke has reduced the break-up of his relationship with Lara Bingle to cold, hard business.
Former captain Ian Chappell had questioned whether Clarke’s return to Australia a fortnight ago had showed the “durability and stability” necessary to be Australian captain.
But in returning to Wellington, Clarke has shown a different side [...]

London, Sep.13 (ANI): Australian captain Ricky Ponting has endorsed Michael Clarke as his successor to captain Australia’s Twenty20 side.

Cricket Australia is yet to announce who will lead the team following Ponting’s decision to retire from Twenty20 internationals to concentrate on his Test and one-day career, but Ponting believes the 28-year-old Clarke, who was skipper for [...]

Southampton (UK), Sep.9 (ANI): The greatest quality that Australian middle-order batsman Callum Ferguson possesses is not his vision or footwork but that he does not believe his own publicity.

The South Australian is the clear candidate to fill the boots of Michael Hussey when the 34-year-old calls it quits.

Ferguson, 10 years Hussey’s junior, has been [...]

London, Sep 4 (ANI): Stand-in Australian captain Michael Clarke has defended coach Tim Nielsen’s decision to take a break after the fourth game of the seven-match series against England, saying he deserves it.

Nielsen will rejoin the team for the Champions Trophy in South Africa later this month. [...]

Melbourne, Aug 30 (ANI): Australia needs a street fighter like Simon Katich to trigger a revival, after calls for sacking of Ricky Ponting in the wake of the Ashes loss under the Tasmanian’s captaincy for the second time in four years

Australian cricket has lost the ruthless cutting edge cultivated by Steve Waugh that made them [...]

Melbourne, Aug 26 (ANI): Ricky Ponting, who become the first Australian captain to surrender the Ashes twice to England in England, has said that he is determined to play the Ashes tour of 2013, even if he is no longer captaining the side.

Australian fans back home want [...]

London, Aug 25(ANI): Former Australian cricketer Jeff Thomson has said that Australian captain Ricky Ponting, who is flying home for a rest, should not abandon his “sinking ship” but rather stay back and clear up the mess in England.

Thomson said that unless Ponting [...]

London, Aug 25(ANI): Punters have improved England cricketer Andrew Flintoff’s odds of getting a knighthood and winning the BBC Sports Personality of the year award following his Ashes heroics.

Betting and gambling website William Hill has placed the Lancashire all-rounder at 16-1 odds for being knighted, down from its earlier bet of 25-1, which now compares [...]

Sydney, Aug 25(ANI): Former Australian cricketer and now a newspaper columnist Peter Roebuck has said that England deserved to win the Ashes, as they had the better-balanced side, and blamed the Australian selectors for sending an unbalanced squad lacking back-up in vital areas to a series of such high stature.

“Clear errors of judgment were [...]

Melbourne, Aug 25 (ANI): Spin legend Shane Warne would jump at the chance to replace Ricky Ponting and come out of retirement “in a heartbeat” if offered the Australian captaincy, former Test star Dean Jones has said.

Ponting’s captaincy is under scrutiny after he became only the second Australian captain to lose two Ashes series on [...]

Sydney, Aug.24 (ANI): Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting is unlikely to be evicted, nor is he likely to step aside after becoming only the second skipper from Down Under to lose back-to-back Ashes series in England, feels cricket columnist Peter Roebuck.

“This is not the end of Ponting’s captaincy. In another dispensation, his sacking would be [...]

London, Aug 21(ANI): Australian captain Ricky Ponting has said that he hasn’t thought about the final Ashes Test match at The Oval being his final Test match against England on their soil.

Ponting is unlikely to play in the next Ashes series on English soil, which would [...]

London, Aug 21(ANI): If the Australian team manages to claim the Ashes in the series decider at The Oval, they will celebrate with a train trip to Edinburgh the next day.

However, it won’t be a victory holiday, but to play a one-day game against Scotland just three days after the [...]

Surrey, Aug 20(ANI): Australia vice-captain Michael Clarke has warned England that they should fear the Australian captain Ricky Ponting as he plays the fifth and final Ashes Test match at The Oval that will determine his legacy.

“You see Punter in World Cup finals or huge matches and he always stands up,’” The Daily Telegraph [...]

London/Brisbane, Aug.20 (ANI): Though the International Cricket Council (ICC) is investigating a report made by the Australian team that one of its players was approached by a suspected bookmaker at their London hotel after the Lord’s Test, the problem of illegal bookies approaching cricketers is rife in India, a source has said.

“This (match fixing and [...]

Surrey, Aug 15 (ANI): Australian captain Ricky Ponting has said that ground conditions will decide whether pacer Stuart Clark or spinner Nathan Hauritz start for the fifth and final Ashes Test match at The Oval, starting on Thursday.

“There are no favourites for that bowling spot at the [...]

London, July 15 (ANI): Former England coach Duncan Fletcher has claimed that Australian captain Ricky Ponting knows nothing about the spirit of cricket.

Fletcher, who was abused by Ponting during the 2005 Ashes over the use of substitute fieldsman Gary Pratt, said England would have been delighted to get under Ponting’s skin in the Cardiff Test. [...]

London, July 14 (ANI): England batsman Paul Collingwood has said that he was terribly upset and thought that the match was over when he lost his wicket against the Australians in the first Ashes Test at Cardiff.

Collingwood was the ninth batsman to be out, before Jimmy Anderson and Monty Panesar ensured a draw with a [...]

Cardiff (Wales), July 13 (ANI): Batting hero Jimmy Anderson on Sunday claimed that Australian captain Ricky Ponting took his fingers off England’s throat by bowling part-time spinner Marcus North in the dramatic final overs at Cardiff.

As England held out for a controversial draw, Ponting tossed the ball to North for two of the final four [...]