Ricky Ponting

When Steve Waugh said Australia would come hard at India, he wasn't kidding

When Steve Waugh said Australia would come hard at India, he wasn't kidding

Having decided to take the busway - the tarmac equivalent of the underground - to the Gabba from South Bank, I find myself boxed in by a motley crew of Australian fans

Having decided to take the busway - the tarmac equivalent of the underground - to the Gabba from South Bank, I find myself boxed in by a motley crew of Australian fans

Ricky Ponting has been named to take over from Steve Waugh as captain of the Australian Test after their home series against India

Cricket Australia today announced that Ricky Ponting would be Australia's forty-second Test Captain following the

It's a great honour to be named as Test captain elect and I thank the selectors and Cricket Australia's Directors for their faith in me

Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Board of Cricket Australia, which convened late yesterday for its scheduled November meeting, we publicly put on record our formal congratulations of Stephen Waugh, the most successful Test Captain in Test

Ponting -- and the team he leads -- cares about just one thing: being on the winning side when the final ball is bowled

Two years, eight months, and two days have passed since that moment, one destined to have a special place in the cricket histories of both Indian and Australia

Perhaps numbers do never reveal the full story, but they tell a large part of it fairly well

Centuries from Gilchrist and Ponting power Australia to a 61-run win

India's batsmen tilted bravely at windmills in the best traditions of Don Quixote, but ultimately, they were undone by a magnificent spell of bowling from one of Australia's forgotten men, and the ineptitude of their own bowlers earlier in the day

Murali Kartik was the only Indian bowler who earned the respect of the Australian batsmen, especially Ricky Ponting

The scene near Anil Kumble Circle half an hour before the game would have appealed to those addicted to chaos

Daryl Tuffey and Kyle Mills took four important wickets but left a lot to be desired with their consistency

Stephen Fleming has spoken out strongly against the scheduling of the ongoing triangular series, the TVS Cup

The hot and humid weather at Mumbai not withstanding, conditions at the Wankhede Stadium were perfect for a typically high-scoring game of one-day cricket

Ricky Ponting took the highest honours in the biggest awards function of the year