Veteran Ponting a Twenty20 greenhorn

Andrew Stevenson, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, says Ricky Ponting remains something of a boy in short pants at Twenty20 cricket. Ponting is 34 and goes into next month's World Twenty20 still to prove his relevance at a young man's game.

Ponting has played the short form just 35 times, 15 of them at an international level. Australia were knocked out of the first World Twenty20 in 2007 by eventual winners India, who went with a bright young side, in contrast to Australia's elderly Test line-up.