Cricket Update: Ponting refutes stories of disturbance in the team
Aussie Captain has dismissed any reports of disputes within the team. Ricky Ponting has been on the receiving end and has witnessed numerous losses of the Australian side in the recent times. Things are absolutely not going well for the Australians and apart
from Santa Claus, they have been criticized from almost every corner. Ponting has refuted reports of any kind of rift in the team, after his team had to undergo yet another series defeat in recent times.
For http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in the last match of the One day series on Sunday. Ricky Ponting knows the importance of team’s unity before a big
series like Ashes and is certainly dismissing any kind of reports that would create a sense of disharmony in the team. He certainly knows the affect of such comments on the team. Australia had to face their seventh consecutive defeat when they lost the decisive
one day match against the Sri Lankans quite convincingly.
Ricky Ponting was not part of the team which suffered the loss from Sri Lanka’s hand in the first one day but was the skipper in the second one. Australian captain dismissed the reports of disputes within the team and also dismissed the reports of difference
in opinion over Michael Clarke’s standing as the next captain of Australian side after Ponting.
Ricky Ponting who has played 148 Test matches knows the Psychological aspect of going into the first Test match of Ashes series, which will commence from November 25th at Brisbane. He said that there has been a bit written about these issues.
He further said that he closely read one of the articles which was written about these issues and he said that some of the issues written and mentioned there were completely made up.
Recently Australian media is suggesting that there have been reports of rift between some Australian players and there is a division in opinion in Australian line up over the fact that Michael http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 should be the captain in standing after Ponting. There
were reports of rift between Michael Hussey and Michael Clarke, as Clarke made comments that surrounded Hussey. Michael Hussey came late for the Indian Test series because he was busy playing champions league in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757. Clarke did not make direct comments
on Hussey but said National duty is more important than playing IPL or Champions league. Hussey later refuted these suggestions and said they are both close friends and also backed him as the next Australian Captain.
Ricky Ponting further said that him being the Captain of the side it is his responsibility to make sure that these little things are handled in the right way. Ponting, recognizes the fact that if they make issue of these little things they won’t be able
to focus on the bigger picture and won’t focus fully in improving their current form.
He also said that some things are reported long way from the mark and it is his responsibility to get on top of these issues. As a skipper, Ponting knows that many things are written in newspapers and one should not pay heed to everything written.
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