Waugh said the best bit of advice he could pass on to Ponting was to enjoy his team mate's success as much as his own.
The former Australia swing bowler believes struggling Test sides like Zimbabwe and Bangladesh should consider luring a player like Mark Waugh out of retirement.\n\n
The legendary cricketer will boost awareness of Australia as a holiday destination.
"It's a huge challenge but India did it to us the last time over there (in 2001)," said the Australian captain.
Australia have drawn inspiration from former World Cup-winning captain Steve Waugh in how to handle big-match pressure ahead of Friday's quarter-final against Pakistan.
Reader Deepak Bansal sent us a picture of Steve Waugh.
The Australian Test captain said the century in the fifth Ashes Test in Sydney saved his career.
His long-standing feud with Steve Waugh was out in the open once again when spin legend Shane Warne slammed the former Australian captain as being a 'selfish cricketer'.
The Australians will be without Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath and Damien Martyn for the first Test.
India's vice-captain, who scored a century in both innings in the second Test against Pakistan, said he had "read a lot about Steve Waugh doing that".
Current Australian captain Ricky Ponting was named as Waugh's deputy.
Glenn McGrath's wife Jane partly owes her life to Steve Waugh, who helped her in curing a cancerous brain tumour her doctors feared was inoperable.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh said the Aussie skipper company had proposed to set up a township in the city on a "100 to 400 acre land".
The curtain finally came down on the glittering careers of cricket's most famous twins, Steve and Mark Waugh, when they played their final first-class match.
Former India captain Ravi Shastri says 'The Wall' will get even better in the years to come.
A lacklustre Australia maybe on the brink of losing the Ashes urn to England but Ricky Ponting, a superior skipper than his predecessor Steve Waugh, is still the best man to lead the side in Tests, according to former captain Ian Chappell. Chappell felt the selectors sold Ponting down the river, picking an all-pace attack for the unresponsive pitch at The Oval and blaming Ponting for the debacle would be barking up the wrong tree.
Steve Waugh hinted he would direct his pacemen to bowl a shorter length to India's batsmen on the bouncy Adelaide wicket.
'They've won in Australia twice (Test series in 2018/19 and 2020/21). Magnificent. But the last few World Cups, (they have) been nowhere, in the last few T20 World Cups, (they have) been nowhere.'
Australia's World Cup-winning captain Steve Waugh feels India's latest batting sensation Virat Kohli must learn from Mahendra Singh Dhoni to keep his emotions in check and mature as a captain.
Lambasting the decision-making in Cricket Australia post Ashes debacle, former cricketer Dean Jones on Friday said the national team needs Steve Waugh as its coach for resurrection.
New Zealand are favourites to beat Australia in their highly anticipated World Cup clash at Eden Park on Saturday but won't like the idea, former Australia captain Steve Waugh has said.
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"I've always played my cricket under the belief that you pick your best 11 players and that's never changed. I think it's wrong to give players guarantees," the Australian Test captain said.
Cricket icon Sachin Tendulkar's tryst with Australia and "The Don" continues as the legendary batsman will be inducted as a Bradman Honouree along with former Test captain Steve Waugh at a gala dinner in Sydney on October 29.
Howard also announced bringing to India a special exhibition on Sir Don Bradman, saying that the Australian government will contribute Aus $1 million in sponsorship towards the Bradman Exhibition tour.
Australia must show a bit of "mongrel" and gel as a team if they are to lift the Ashes against England, former captain Steve Waugh has said.
'There's days when you contemplate either way and I really haven't made a decision yet,' said the Aussie Test captain.
The former Australia captain says Ganguly's bickering over pitches 'was not too different from match-fixing'.
Cricketer-turned-philanthropist Steve Waugh is so convinced of the evenness of India and Australia's might that he has predicted a 4-3 scoreline for the winners in the forthcoming ODI series.
'Dhoni will never go to a player and ask him what field you want.' 'He will want the player to learn from his own mistakes.' 'Rohit will put his arm around your shoulder and tell you, "This is what is expected from you, you can do this".'
Pat Cummins may be undecided about his future as Australia's One-Day International captain after the World Cup but few of his compatriots will be urging him to stand down after his efforts in India.
