Former players, including Australia's ex-captain Allan Border, have thrown their weight behind the embattled Ricky Ponting with one of them saying that the senior batsman is capable of emulating Indian Rahul Dravid's return to form after a prolonged lean patch.
Captain Ricky Ponting has defended Cricket Australia's decision to go ahead with India tour despite recent bomb blasts in New Delhi, saying the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and independent security experts have given them green signal. He added that both as captain and player of the team he is comfortable to visit India on the advice of CA and the Australian Cricketer's Association.
Kasprowicz snapped up career-best figures of five for 45 to bowl Sri Lanka out for 193, and helped Australia clinch an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting said that England batter Joe Root is fulfilling his full potential with his run over two years.
Australia need to improve despite their 50-run victory over West Indies in Saturday's Champions Trophy Group A match, captain Ricky Ponting said.
Ricky Ponting, who stepped down from the captaincy in March and turned 37 on Monday, needs a first Test ton in nearly two years merely to save his career.
Predicting a close contest in the upcoming series against India, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting said he was keenly looking forward to the tour as it is one of the great places to play cricket.
The Australian captain mirrors daunting records for England, as the teams ready for the semi-final clash in Champions Trophy.
Describing Ricky Ponting as the "elephant in the room", former New Zealand captain Chris Cairns has said that Cricket Australia (CA) needs to end his 16-year long Test career in order to move forward.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting will miss the opening One-day International against Sri Lanka to fly to Tasmania for his grandmother's funeral.
After former wicketkeeper Adam Gilchrist created quite a stir with his revelations about the infamous Sydney Test in his book, it is the turn of skipper Ricky Ponting to give his take on the racism row that shook world cricket.
The Aussie skipper said that his team was in Zimbabwe to do their jobs but did not turn a blind eye to the happenings.
"A lot of the guys have (not) played cricket for a couple of months, so it was a good game to get under our belt," said the Aussie captain.
Ricky Ponting is on the verge of joining an exclusive club of 10,000 Test runs, but the Australian captain said he was not aware of his impending milestone only to be told by a team official.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting opened the Test series against West Indies with an innings of 158 at Sabina Park on Thursday and declared himself delighted to be back in the long version of the game. Ponting scored a century in his last Test appearance but that was back in January against India -- since then he has been focused on one-day and Twenty20 cricket in India and struggling to make scores.
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The Australian captain spent most of the day in bed with a stomach virus.
"They have really been consistent over the past two years," said Rahul Dravid.
Since his comeback after an injury lay-off in August 2023, Jasprit Bumrah has been a key figure in India's success.
Australia's captain Ricky Ponting is hoping to score plenty of runs during upcoming the four-Test series and improve his pathetic average of 12.28.
The bad blood of last summer still fresh in mind, Australia captain Ricky Ponting does not want acrimony to vitiate his team's healthy rivalry with India in the forthcoming Test series.
Rahul Dravid has already informed the BCCI about his decision to step away from the role after the T20 World Cup.
Australia's bowlers backed up captain Ricky Ponting's second successive ODI century to lead their side to a 114-run win and series victory against New Zealand.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting became only the seventh batsman to reach 10,000 runs in Test matches on Friday and declared himself proud of his long career. He went to the crease needing 61 on the first day of the second test against West Indies and become the third Australian to reach the milestone following former captains Allan Border and Steve Waugh.
Embattled Ricky Ponting on Tuesday stepped down as Australia's captain from the Test and one-day cricket teams in the wake of the team's shocking quarter-final exit from the ongoing World Cup, but will be available for selection as a batsman in both the formats.
The 21-year-old Lucknow Super Giants fast bowler has turned heads with his raw pace and razor-sharp control.
Ricky Ponting raised both arms to acknowledge the crowd of the WACA Ground and said farewell to cricket.
He became the first player to record 100 wins in the shortest format of the game.
Australia's World Cup-winning captain says that burnout caused by exhausting playing schedules is the team's biggest fear.
Australia one-day captain believes that playing against the Sri Lanka off-spinner is largely guesswork.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting smashed a LCD television set in the team's dressing room, apparently in a fit of anger, after he got run out against Zimbabwe, sources in the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) said on Tuesday.
Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting has said in his soon to be released autobiography that no one had forced him to step down as Test captain but instead a number of people tried to talk him out of it.
Ricky Ponting admits Harbhajan Singh has had the better of their exchanges in Tests but stressed he had paid the bowler back in the one-dayers.
The knives are out, and directed at one man. Ricky Ponting. With the fans and former cricketers gunning for his head after the Ashes loss, Australia's captain had an ideal opportunity to redeem himself by winning the World Cup.
