It's not Groundhog Day - Ponting
Ricky Ponting writes in his column in The Australian about his expectations for the South Africa tour .
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Ricky Ponting writes in his column in The Australian about his expectations for the South Africa tour.
If the recent round of Tests and limited-overs internationals in Australia provides an indication, it's not just the South Africa players who will be fired up come the opening Twenty20 match in Johannesburg on Friday. We're expecting to cop our fair share from the notoriously outspoken crowds over there.
People have asked whether there will be a sense of "Groundhog Day" in locking horns with the Proteas so soon after they toured here. But we haven't played them for a couple of weeks now, and because those matches came in the middle of a hectic home summer, those few weeks seem like a long time in the grand scheme of things.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo