A week in the life of Ricky Ponting
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Trevor Marshallsea tracks Ricky Ponting’s week, which culminated in his 124 against Sri Lanka last night
The Surfer
25-Feb-2013
The Sydney Morning Herald’s Trevor Marshallsea tracks Ricky Ponting’s week, which culminated in his 124 against Sri Lanka last night. “Good, bad and ugly hardly do it justice,” he writes.
In the same paper Peter Roebuck covers the 237-run Ponting-Symonds partnership that broke the Australian record for all wickets.
Ponting has learnt to be civilised, yet a part of him yearns for the old days when he could play his shots and speak his mind. Symonds has heard about tact and discretion but tends to regard them much as children view vegetables. Both men yearn for the blowing of the bugle, the ringing of the bell, the sounds of battle in their ears.