BRUISED RICKY PONTING
When Swann spin the ball to knock out Mr. Cricket [Michael Hussey], a dejected Ricky Ponting took the longest walk of his life to a cricket ground, to shake hands with the English cricketers. A bruised Ricky Ponting was telling the whole story of the series, which the two team is playing for since 1882.
In 1882 when the two played it for the first time, no one even imagined that this would become one of the most fiercely battled Cricketing legacies for the subsequent centuries.
But in the last decade the fierce rivalry was quite docile and Australia overpowered England most of the time, during their roller coaster period. A stoic tactician like Steve Waugh at the helm of the affairs and some finest cricketer this world has ever seen, in team most teams were a cakewalk for them, except some personal brilliance and up to an extent India as a team they whistled away most of their oppositions.
Such was the invincible aura of the team, we almost forgot that Australia could also loose. We were so used to the brilliance of McGrath, Warnie, Gilly, Ponting and the Waugh brothers in an Ashes that almost a brigade of English cricketer were left unnoticed in the last decade especially in an Ashes, except a few. Among the few noticed, Freddie Flintoff, was one. And w
hen he announced the world about his retirement in the current Ashes, very few people knew that once the pin up boy of English cricket will once again leave his stamp of authority in this series like the 2005 one, and motivate the dressing room to outplay Ponting lead Australia to rope in the series 2-1.
This time the English gelled under Andrew Strauss pretty well, and played as a team. The way youngsters came into the party, especially Broad who bowled a series deciding spell in the final test, Trott the debutant who made a century on debut that also in a series deciding Ashes Final is praiseworthy. Veterans like Collingwood; Harmission played their role too. Australia have also a few positives to take home, like the form of Michael Clark, emergence of North, Siddle, Hilfenhaus into the big league.
Warne with his ball of the century, wrote the script for Australia’s dominance, may be its time for England to Swann into glory.
When Swann spin the ball to knock out Mr. Cricket [Michael Hussey], a dejected Ricky Ponting took the longest walk of his life to a cricket ground, to shake hands with the English cricketers. A bruised Ricky Ponting was telling the whole story of the series, which the two team is playing for since 1882.
In 1882 when the two played it for the first time, no one even imagined that this would become one of the most fiercely battled Cricketing legacies for the subsequent centuries.
But in the last decade the fierce rivalry was quite docile and Australia overpowered England most of the time, during their roller coaster period. A stoic tactician like Steve Waugh at the helm of the affairs and some finest cricketer this world has ever seen, in team most teams were a cakewalk for them, except some personal brilliance and up to an extent India as a team they whistled away most of their oppositions.
Such was the invincible aura of the team, we almost forgot that Australia could also loose. We were so used to the brilliance of McGrath, Warnie, Gilly, Ponting and the Waugh brothers in an Ashes that almost a brigade of English cricketer were left unnoticed in the last decade especially in an Ashes, except a few. Among the few noticed, Freddie Flintoff, was one. And w
hen he announced the world about his retirement in the current Ashes, very few people knew that once the pin up boy of English cricket will once again leave his stamp of authority in this series like the 2005 one, and motivate the dressing room to outplay Ponting lead Australia to rope in the series 2-1.This time the English gelled under Andrew Strauss pretty well, and played as a team. The way youngsters came into the party, especially Broad who bowled a series deciding spell in the final test, Trott the debutant who made a century on debut that also in a series deciding Ashes Final is praiseworthy. Veterans like Collingwood; Harmission played their role too. Australia have also a few positives to take home, like the form of Michael Clark, emergence of North, Siddle, Hilfenhaus into the big league.
Warne with his ball of the century, wrote the script for Australia’s dominance, may be its time for England to Swann into glory.
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