The former Australian captain Ricky Ponting predicted India’s tour to Australia to be the toughest for the Hosts – Cricket news Update
Australia’s former captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377 termed the forthcoming Indian tour to Australia as one of the toughest contests of the year.
The World Champion Indian team will tour Australia in December 2011 for series of Test and T20 matches. Ponting called it as one of the most difficult contests of the year for the Australian team led by newly appointed coach http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978.
Australia had other tours and series planned before this big contest but even that much preparation would not be enough according to the former skipper.
Aussies are currently touring Sri Lanka, and then will contest http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 as a guest team. These tours will benefit the team to prepare for the series against India but still Ponting said that series against India is one of the biggest
and toughest and results are highly unpredictable as both are one of the top and best teams of the world.
An Australian newspaper quoted Ponting, “I think they’re a lot different when they play us and (Indian captain M.S.) Dhoni himself has made that pretty clear. He says he’s a http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Walker-c95903 against everybody except Australia. We’ll wait and see how they go out here.”
Ponting further added that http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 has ruled the cricket world for over a decade but even then whenever they had fixtures against India; the team enjoyed the competition posed by the current World Champions.
India is touring Australia after a long time. Since the controversial tour in 2007-2008, the tour in December will be India’s first to the Down Under.
Initially the teams will contest in the Test series; however there will also be a tri nation ODI series between http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, Australia and Sri Lanka.
India is currently playing a series against the English cricket team in England while Australian team had just started its tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758. Both the teams are strong and well balanced but have had difficult time in their respective tours.
India has lost the first 2 Test matches of the series while Australia was also beaten by the Sri Lankan cricket team in the 1st T20 International of the tour.
No matter the teams are not doing very well in the initial fixtures but still posses the potential to turn the direction of the series.
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