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Ponting admits to captaincy concerns

Ricky Ponting needed to have his concerns assuaged by the national selector John Inverarity before he accepted the stand-in captaincy for Friday's triangular series match against Sri Lanka in Sydney

16-Feb-2012•Daniel Brettig in Sydney

Ponting to captain in Clarke's absence

Australia's selectors have turned to the former captain Ricky Ponting as the short-term leadership solution to Michael Clarke's hamstring problem

14-Feb-2012•Daniel Brettig

Clarke out of Sri Lanka ODI

Australia's captain Michael Clarke has confirmed a hamstring complaint will keep him out of Friday's triangular series match against Sri Lanka in Sydney

13-Feb-2012•Daniel Brettig

Clarke's best man

As a batting duo Clarke and Ponting bounce off one another perfectly, playing in styles that contrast in ways that split the field

25-Jan-2012•Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval

Clarke and Ponting double-tons keep Australia on top

Michael Clarke entered this Test with a whitewash on his mind. After two days, he could hardly have hoped for Australia to be in a stronger position to push for it

25-Jan-2012•The Report by Brydon Coverdale

Ponting and Clarke demoralise India again

By stumps, Australia were 3 for 335. Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting both had hundreds. It was Australia Day, 48 hours early

23-Jan-2012•The Report by Brydon Coverdale

Australia will adapt faster to the WACA - Ponting

Ricky Ponting believes Australia will adapt more rapidly than India to what he expects to be a traditionally fast and bouncy WACA pitch for the third Test.

11-Jan-2012•Brydon Coverdale at the WACA

Ponting glad to feel the rhythm again

Ricky Ponting is confident he has overcome the technical flaws that troubled him during the leanest patch of his international career

11-Jan-2012•Brydon Coverdale at the WACA

'Pressure made me work harder' - Ponting

Ricky Ponting knew a big score was coming, and satisfyingly he achieved it in Sydney when his team really needed him, with 134 runs that matched the innings of his pomp

04-Jan-2012•Daniel Brettig at the SCG

Ponting's ton, Clarke's double demoralise India

Michael Clarke and Ricky Ponting both scored milestone hundreds to put Australia in complete control on the second day against India in Sydney

04-Jan-2012•The Report by Brydon Coverdale

Comfortable chasing under 300 - Sehwag

Virender Sehwag and Ricky Ponting feel the Test is finely balanced going into the fourth day, which could also prove to be the final one

28-Dec-2011•Sidharth Monga at the MCG

Hilfenhaus, Yadav shine on bowlers' day

Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey fought to hold Australia's second innings together, after the top order melted away against Umesh Yadav and Ishant Sharma on a helter skelter day three of the first Test at the MCG

28-Dec-2011•The Report by Daniel Brettig at the MCG

Cowan, Yadav shine on see-saw day

Australia's batsmen scrambled to 6 for 277 against a shrewd and opportunistic India on day one of the Boxing Day Test, and would not have progressed that far without a meritorious debut from Ed Cowan in front of 70,068 spectators at the MCG

25-Dec-2011•The Report by Daniel Brettig at the MCG

No one is guaranteed a start - Arthur

Ricky Ponting remains vital to the development of Australia's Test side but cannot keep earning a place in the team based on his reputation, according to the coach Mickey Arthur

20-Dec-2011•Brydon Coverdale

The No. 3 mutual admiration society

When the whole world was asking Ricky Ponting to retire, the man who had just overtaken him to become the second-highest run-getter in Test cricket was rooting for him to do well against South Africa

07-Dec-2011•Sidharth Monga

Ponting half-century steers Australia

After nearly two years without a Test hundred, Ricky Ponting gave himself every chance of completing one on home soil with an assured half-century that provided a solid platform for Australia at the Gabba

02-Dec-2011•The Report by Brydon Coverdale

Ponting confronts his cricket mortality

Ricky Ponting has conceded he does not have much time left in the game, saying he will quit as soon as he considers himself incapable of improvement

25-Nov-2011•Daniel Brettig

Ponting incredibly important part of team - Langer

Australia's assistant coach, Justin Langer, has described Ricky Ponting as "an incredibly important part" of the Test side, despite his recent lack of runs

13-Nov-2011•Brydon Coverdale in Cape Town

Australia cruise to win in rain-reduced match

Australia were inconvenienced more by rain than South Africa as they rampaged through the hosts in a truncated first ODI at Centurion, winning by 93 runs under Duckworth-Lewis calculations

19-Oct-2011•The Report by Daniel Brettig

Clarke sounds out Ponting warning

Michael Clarke has said Ricky Ponting is on the brink of one of the best series of his career

18-Oct-2011•Firdose Moonda in Centurion

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