Ricky’s tatty baggy

There’s life left in Ricky Ponting, but not much in his baggy green, writes Peter Lalor in the Australian.

Over the years the face and the cap have worn and faded together. Nothing else in Ponting's career has been there for so long.

In the Courier-Mail Robert Craddock pushes for Doug Bollinger to hold his spot on Boxing Day.

Australia are not playing so well that they can afford to waste the form and momentum he has built up against West Indies. His eight-wicket haul in Perth was worthy of Man-of-the-Match honours. He has a certain force about him at the moment that no other member of the attack can boast.