Ricky Ponting confident of playing on Boxing Day
Ricky Ponting is likely to continue his streak of not having missed a Test for Australia since October 2004, after his left elbow showed no ill effects from two days of batting in the nets ahead of the Boxing Day Test

Ricky Ponting was struck hard on the elbow by Kemar Roach, but expects to recover in time for Boxing Day • Getty Images
Osman Samiuddin is Pakistan editor of Cricinfo