Ponting a better captain than Waugh
Despite results suggesting otherwise, Ricky Ponting is a superior captain to his predecessor, Steve Waugh, writes Ian Chappell in the Sunday Telegraph .

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Ponting never runs out of ideas in the field, whereas Waugh, even with a more experienced and varied attack, was often devoid of inspiration on the few occasions when his captaincy was really tested.
Strauss's assurance at the crease has so often been what has held Australia up; once they have got rid of him, the door has looked open, the barriers thin. Over the past year his play has developed strikingly. Whereas before he could be restricted by full-length bowling, now he deals with it more positively by transferring his weight confidently on to the front foot and punching the ball back down the ground. The bowler cannot any longer afford to err by overpitching.
With Australia requiring only a draw on a ground that usually offers bowlers a similar working environment to a Skegness donkey, whatever items came out of the groundsman’s shed to prepare the playing surface, we can safely say a watering can was not among them. In which case, arise Sir Bill Gordon.
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo