Ian Botham says it is time English cricket stopped talked about finding the new "Beefy" and started concentrating on discovering another Andrew Flintoff.
Ponting said he hoped the likes of Flintoff, Vaughan and Jones all regained their fitness in time for the five-match series.
Flintoff led the team during England's failed Ashes campaign while Vaughan was recovering from knee surgery.
Andrew Strauss will remain captain for the remainder of England's Test series against Pakistan as Andrew Flintoff prepares to undergo ankle surgery this week.
He will stand-in for Andrew Flintoff, who went home after the Test series to see his newborn son
Liam Plunkett took three wickets as England scored their first major victory of the Pakistan tour with a 42-run win in the opening ODI.
In the form of his life for the past few years, the 29-year-old all-rounder already has 7000 plus runs and more than 270 wickets across formats and finds his name mentioned alongside the likes of Ian Botham and Andrew Flintoff.
England snapped up three late wickets to leave Pakistan 183 for 6 at the close on the fourth day in the second Test, an overall lead of 199 runs.
Andrew Strauss made 98 and Andrew Flintoff took four wickets as England swept past Bangladesh with five wickets to spare in Sunday's triangular series one-dayer to set up a final against Australia.
A summary of the five Tests between England and Australia this summer.
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Australia captain Tim Paine said thoughts of how to outwit England batsman Ben Stokes keep him awake at night.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has resigned as Gujarat Cricket Association president. GCA secretary Rajesh Patel said: 'Prime Minister Narendra Modi sent his resignation letter to us yesterday, which said that he is quitting the post of GCA president.'
England's 2005 Ashes-winning side were better than the team that sealed a series victory over Australia with a game to spare in Nottingham on Saturday, according to Kevin Pietersen.
Chris Gayle made a special visit to the house of Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan. Bachchan's interest in the ongoing World T20 tournament has been enormous. The Bollywood Shehenshah was present during the epic India-Pakistan match at the Eden Gardens and was pumped up when India hit the winning runs to seal the high-pressure game. Bachchan also took a dig at former England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff, when the latter had tried to make fun of India's champion batsman Virat Kohli
Wisden, regarded as the Bible of cricket, has named Indian batting maestro Sachin Tendulkar as the leading cricketer in the world for the year 2010. The iconic batsman is the seventh recipient of the Wisden award after teammate Virender Sehwag, Australians Ricky Ponting and Shane Warne, England's Andrew Flintoff, Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan and South African Jacques Kallis.
Ireland's dashing all-rounder Kevin O'Brien says he was disappointed at not being picked by any of the franchises at the auction for the fifth edition of the IPL.
The England Cricket Board will invite former players, including Ashes hero Andrew Flintoff, on the final day of the fourth Test against India to celebrate the team's rise to the top of ICC rankings.
Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath says India's bowling attack remains a "world-class" one despite the recent debacles against New Zealand and blamed the under-whelming performance on factors such as injury lay-offs and toss.
It was the greatest series in the history of the game but what has become of those Australian and English players a decade on?
He was the manager of the Indian team during its memorable NatWest Trophy triumph over England at Lord's way back in 2002 and Rajiv Shukla has revealed that Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman refused then skipper Sourav Ganguly's request of taking off their shirts and wave it.
Here are some photos from the memorable evening...
He believes that skill level has been impacted because players are playing more T20s than Test cricket now.
The others are Australian bowling greats Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath, South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis and West Indian batsman Brian Lara.
He became only the seventh all-rounder in the world to score 2,000 runs and take 100 wickets in a particular country.
Veteran basketball player James Donaldson has advised sportspersons dealing with mental health issues to stay away from cell phones and social media.
Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan fears Test cricket might die if stars like Shahid Afridi and Andrew Flintoff continue to retire from the format to chase the millions on offer in Twenty20 leagues like the Indian Premier League.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting believes all rounder Shane Watson has the capability to become the world's premier all-rounder in the coming years.
Indian Premier League Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi on Thursday retaliated to Michael Clarke's last-minute withdrawal from the second season of IPL, saying the Australian vice-captain feared remaining unsold.
The third Test between India and England starts on March 18 in Mumbai.
England captain Andrew Strauss has invited a confrontation with Kevin Pietersen after saying that the ECB is right in using central contracts to regulate its players.
ICC Chief Executive David Richardson informed that the world cricketing body is working on "educating the players on what it means to play the game within the spirit."
Statistical highlights of the third One-Day International between India and England at the Green Park, Kanpur, on Thursday.
With England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff gearing up for his swansong Test, pace bowler James Anderson wants to give his outgoing teammate a fitting farewell by winning the Ashes series.
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