Ponting needs to end Twenty20 vision

It's got nothing to do with his ability - it's just a mindset thing. Strangely enough, as soon as I looked down from the television I noticed a copy of John Buchanan's new book, The Future of Cricket, and one of the first pages I flicked to contained the following sentence. "I believe that for the likes of Ganguly, Tendulkar, Dravid and Ponting this T20 format has arrived too late in their careers. There is no doubt they can play this game but I have my doubts they can play it at the pace the game demands."

"Since Shane and I left the Australian cricket team his critical views about my role have continued," Buchanan wrote. "It is disappointing coming from someone like Shane who, on the field, has been a player and a person who has changed the face of the game. It is puzzling that a person of his stature in cricket, someone with iconic status, would continue to criticise me.”