Kervezee wants shirt off Ponting’s back

Alexei Kervezee, the 17-year-old batsman from Netherlands, is so young he says he could call Glenn McGrath “Dad”. However, McGrath is not the man Kervezee wants to meet when he plays Australia on Sunday. Ricky Ponting is his hero and he is desperate to swap shirts at the end of the game.

Kervezee says he is not worried by the challenge of facing the defending world champions. "I get anxious but I don't get too fazed about things,” he said in The Australian. "Shaun Tait will be among the quickest I have faced. But I spoke to the Scottish batsmen and they said Lasith Malinga from Sri Lanka is quicker than Tait. I have faced Malinga and he has decent wheels and bowls around 150km/h so that was good to know."