Australian skipper Ricky Ponting expects more cricketers to follow Andrew Flintoff and Andrew Symonds in going freelance.
Batsmen in the mould of, or, as talented as Michael Clarke or the retired Ricky Ponting, may never be seen in Australia again if the 'holes in the production line' are not addressed by the country's cricket administrators, says former great Ian Chappell.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is of the view that his team is in great shape after remaining unbeaten in all formats of the game at home this summer.
The pressure is likely to be on South Africa in the return series against Australia, said visiting captain Ricky Ponting when his squad flew in on Monday.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting and talismanic England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff may be seen in the new role of a commentator in the upcoming Champions League Twenty20 cricket tournament.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting has said that his desire to play the World Cup in 2011 and to prolong his Test career were two key reasons for giving a miss to international Twenty20 cricket.
Punjab Kings batter Shashank Singh is preparing for the upcoming IPL season with a focus on countering the 'familiarity factor' and improving his game.
Rediff.com looks the batting ace's top five of his 41 Test centuries, which has had a big impact on his career.
Match referee Chris Broad spoke to Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Aamer about his future conduct after he brushed against Ricky Ponting following his dismissal of the Australia captain at Lord's on Tuesday.
Their desire to win at all costs is beginning to blur their moral compass, Hall of Famer John Bertrand said.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting's centuries in his 100th Test reinforced his position as the world's top Test batsman in the LG ICC player rankings.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting was absent when the team assembled in Darwin on Monday ahead of the first Test with Sri Lanka.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting feels Cricket Australia let him and the entire team down during the 2008 'Monkeygate' controversy, saying that CA officials acted as if the relationship with India mattered more than the national players.
Ricky Ponting, Australia's most successful one-day cricketer, accepted that his limited overs international career was over on Tuesday but said he wanted to continue in Test cricket and hoped to play in the 2013 Ashes.
The aura of invincibility maybe wearing thin but Ricky Ponting vowed Australia would do whatever it takes to remain the number one team in both the Test and limited over formats of the game.
Australia should stick with Joe Burns as David Warner's opening partner for next month's first Test against India
Australia's skipper said the opening pair got more runs than he had expected in the tri-series match against Zinmababwe.\n\n
Ponting said he hoped the likes of Flintoff, Vaughan and Jones all regained their fitness in time for the five-match series.
Western Australia cricketers are eager to travel to India for the Champions Twenty20 League even as Australia skipper Ricky Ponting suggested shifting the tournament to some other country in the wake of the terror strikes in Mumbai. The players have voted unanimously to go, if cleared to do so by Cricket Australia, which at present has banned its members from travelling to the sub-continent.
In the backdrop of Ricky Ponting's comments, Rajneesh Gupta throws up with interesting statistical insights on Tendulkar and Lara's showing against Australia when Ponting was the captain.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has told injury-plagued pacer Brett Lee that his Test future hinges on a good performance in the upcoming one-day series against England.
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting has reached a landmark score of 24,000 first-class runs as his batting display gave Surrey hope of a draw in their LV County Championship Division One clash against Nottinghamshire at The Oval.
Desperate to salvage their Ashes tour, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is hoping to win the fourth Test at Headingley, where he has scored two centuries and his side has not lost a Test in the last 34 years.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has called on the national governing body to examine the entire structure of the game throughout the country and not just his team's failings in the recent Ashes series.
Australia easily overhauled Zimbabwe's respectable total of 205 for 9 in the first ODI, losing three wickets.
Delhi Capitals are still in the race for the play-off along with Mumbai Indians and Lucknow Super Giants.
Australia's captain Ricky Ponting, who injured the little finger on his left hand when attempting a catch in the third Test in Perth, practised against a bowling machine indoors then went outside to face a raft of different bowlers on a sunny morning in Melbourne on Friday.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting is against the proposed super-contracts in the Indian Premier League. He feels having no cap on players' salary will adversely affect the level of competition of the Twenty20 extravaganza.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting sets himself to throw the ball during a fielding drill at the team's training camp in preparation for the Caribbean tour at Allan Border Field in Brisbane on Monday.
The Australia captain is the first recipient of the award, introduced as a counterpart to the traditional 'Five Cricketers of the Year Award'.
Nehal Wadhera and Shashank Singh struck half-centuries, while left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar took three wickets as Punjab Kings outclassed Rajasthan Royals by 10 runs.
Smith, who has played just four Twenty20 internationals for Australia since the start of 2023, went unsold at the Indian Premier League auction held in December last year.
Cricket Australia (CA) has slapped 12-month bans on Steve Smith and David Warner, while suspending Cameron Bancroft, who was caught using a piece of sandpaper on the ball in the Cape Town Test, for nine months following the controversy which rocked cricket in Australia.
The Australia skipper believes the all-rounder is ready to make his Test debut after another fine outing against SL in the third ODI.
Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has said that he will target England batsmen Kevin Pietersen and Alistair Cook during the forthcoming Ashes series, as he sees them as the weak link in that line-up.
Former Australia skipper Ricky Ponting claims that he persuaded Rahul Dravid against retiring when he was written off after a string of low scores last year and the in-form Indian batsman has reciprocated the support by inspiring him during his lean patch.
Australia captain Ricky Ponting admitted his team's attack was "not good enough" to bowl out West Indies on the final day of the drawn second Test in Antigua on Tuesday. West Indies batted all day for the loss of five wickets to avoid defeat in a game Australia dominated with Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul sharing a particularly stubborn partnership.
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