With reigning champions Australia making a premature exit from the Cricket World Cup after their comprehensive defeat to hosts India, the debate is raging in the media here about the future of Ricky 'Punter' Ponting
With reigning champions Australia making a premature exit from the Cricket World Cup after their comprehensive defeat to hosts India, the debate is raging in the media here about the future of Ricky 'Punter' Ponting.
Ricky Ponting
While the skipper may have silenced critics of his cricketing abilities for the time being, the question mark over his captaincy still lingers. Apparently, the fact that the world title has slipped out of Australian hands after 12 years is not going down too well with Australian media commentators.
"Even if Ponting bats on at Test levelu00a0-- and that is very much open to debateu00a0-- his 50-over career should be over," Robert Craddock said in a scathing write up in Herald Sun. "If Ponting is chosen to lead the 50-over tour to Bangladesh next month then Australia's selectors have picked the wrong team," Craddock wrote.
"Ricky Ponting's century against India may have saved his Test future because it showed that if he is prepared to defer to the ageing process and shed some of the extravagance of his pomp he can still be a force at the highest level," Craddock further said.
Jon Anderson, another cricket writer from the News Corporation stable, is not very impressed with the Australian skipper's effort on Thursday. "Ricky Ponting's career-saving century has done nothing but make what are already cloudy waters in Australian cricket even murkier," he wrote in a post-quarter final analysis.
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