Australian dominance in world cricket not over: Ponting
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By PTI |
PERTH: India may have managed to halt the juggernaut but Australia's days of invincibility are far from over, asserted captain Ricky Ponting.
Smarting from the 72-run defeat against India which denied the side a record 17th straight Test win, Ponting said it was premature to construe the defeat as beginning of the end of Australia's hegemony in world cricket.
"It's been interesting to read the newspapers which suggest that Australia's days of invincibility are over, we are on the slide," Ponting said.
"Australia is usually a team which turns things around pretty quickly," he said.
The Australian skipper, however, did not hold himself back in praising Indians wholeheartedly in outplaying his team in the third Test at WACA.
Smarting from the 72-run defeat against India which denied the side a record 17th straight Test win, Ponting said it was premature to construe the defeat as beginning of the end of Australia's hegemony in world cricket.
"It's been interesting to read the newspapers which suggest that Australia's days of invincibility are over, we are on the slide," Ponting said.
"Australia is usually a team which turns things around pretty quickly," he said.
The Australian skipper, however, did not hold himself back in praising Indians wholeheartedly in outplaying his team in the third Test at WACA.
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"India dominated the game. Their batsmen and bowlers were both on top of their games and they also caught most things that came their way," he said.
On missing out on the record, Ponting said, "The run of successive wins had to stop at some time. Our cricket perhaps just wasn't good enough to win us this Test match."
Ponting blamed his batsmen for not making a big score in the first innings, which, he felt, cost them the match.
"The deficit of the first innings was a major issue. It's very difficult to come back into a Test if you concede a lead of 120 runs, more so if you are batting last," he said.
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