Ponting can learn from AB
Ricky Ponting is not happy with Allan Border's comments on his captaincy in Nagpur, but Robert Craddock writes in the Herald Sun that by the time Ponting retires he will surely be worshipping at Border's altar.
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
Ricky Ponting is not happy with Allan Border's comments on his captaincy in Nagpur, but Robert Craddock writes in the Herald Sun that by the time Ponting retires he will surely be worshipping at Border's altar.
With every passing day in charge of Australia's new generation team Ponting is finding out what it is like to be Border. The tense selection issues. The insecurity of under-performing players. The glee of other nations at extending the once invincible champions. The media inquisitions.
The more you see Ponting scrapping along as the captain of a team struggling to match its former glories, the more you wonder at how on earth Border handled such stress - and much more - during his tenure as skipper. Mark Taylor said five years was the sensible limit for a Test captain. Border did it for 10.
In the Daily Telegraph, Jon Pierik defends the under-fire wicketkeeper Brad Haddin.
It should be remembered that Test greats Ian Healy and Rod Marsh all began their international careers with mixed performances, and endured calls for their axings. Times and expectations, however, have changed.
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here