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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Australia easily overhauled Zimbabwe's respectable total of 205 for 9 in the first ODI, losing three wickets.
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.
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.
The Australia captain is the first recipient of the award, introduced as a counterpart to the traditional 'Five Cricketers of the Year Award'.
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.
Ponting said at the end of the day it comes down to individual preparation.
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.
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.
Under Kohli's captaincy, India became the first Asian side to win a Test series in Australia, besides recording some memorable wins elsewhere.
The Australia skipper believes the all-rounder is ready to make his Test debut after another fine outing against SL in the third ODI.
He became the first player to record 100 wins in the shortest format of the game.
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.
Australia beat England by seven wickets to level the series 1-1.
Australia vice-captain Ricky Ponting, who made a century in each of the first three tests against West Indies, is doubtful for the fourth because of illness.
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.
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.
Australia should stick with Joe Burns as David Warner's opening partner for next month's first Test against India
Australia captain Ricky Ponting insists he is the right choice to lead the team for Ashes despite critics calling for his head after the Test series debacle in India.
Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting said on Wednesday he was "offended" after Mark Taylor blasted his feud with Michael Clarke, saying it should have stayed in the dressing room.
Afghanistan and Punjab Kings all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai is determined to translate his remarkable ODI achievements into the T20 format.
Cricket fans in Bangalore were treated to a rare spectacle on Monday, as batting greats Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting trained together, for the same team.
Australia are seeking an eighth consecutive Test victory this week but captain Ricky Ponting said the current team would never compare with the more illustrious sides he has played in.
Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting, who retired in 2012, has said he delayed his international retirement by two years in his bid to help the team deal with a generational shift.
Hard-hitting Baroda all-rounder Hardik Pandya said his selection to the Indian team for the T20 series boosted his confidence and is hoping to carry his good form in domestic cricket into the upcoming three-match Twenty20 series in Australia.
Australian captain Michael Clarke and former skipper Ricky Ponting are likely to attract most attention when the nine franchises sit for the players' auction of the Indian Premier League 6 in Chennai.
Under-fire captain Ricky Ponting said defending champion Australia's premature exit from the World Cup has left his fate in the hands of the selectors but warned that a 'clear-the-decks policy' could be fraught with danger.
'I'm sure that at different times Sreesanth and a few of the guys will cop a hard time from the Australian fans,' the Aussie captain said.
Australian captain Ricky Ponting on Thursday predicted that India would beat Pakistan in the World Cup semi-final and Mahendra Singh Dhoni's men are the strong favourites to win the coveted title after a gap of 28 years.
Australia's captain said the two rescued the side when it was under pressure.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting on Thursday said Cricket Australia (CA) should not come in the way of players' participation in the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL) by raking up sponsorship issues.
Ponting said the replacements for McGrath, Gillespie and Lee were just as good.
