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Injury forces Brett Lee to leave India tour

30.10.09
Paceman Brett Lee is to return home from Australia's tour of India because of injury... more

India will have home help, warns Ricky Ponting

20.10.09
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has urged his players to disregard India's unimpressive Champions Trophy form, warning the second-ranked one-day outfit will be a vastly different team on home soil... more

Watch live text commentary of Champions Trophy final

05.10.09
Ricky Ponting admits that not even winning the ICC Champions Trophy today would make up for the pain of captaining Australia to Ashes defeat... more

Ricky Ponting loved his time on tour

21.09.09
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has described this summer's tour of England as one of the most enjoyable of his career, despite skippering his side to an Ashes defeat for the second time... more

Defiant Ricky Ponting says he’s the man to win back the Ashes

26.08.09
Frosty welcome for beaten Australia skipper as he jets home for some much-needed rest amid calls for him to quit after Oval loss... more

Skipper is glad to see the return of referrals

24.08.09
Ricky Ponting believes the introduction of across-the-board third-umpire referrals will benefit cricket for years to come... more

Time is running out for Ponting just as he prepares to celebrate his finest hour

21.08.09
Ashes win would be crowning glory for Aussie captain who has waited so long to fashion a team in his own image... more

Australia fear Andrew Flintoff factor in Ashes decider

19.08.09
Ricky Ponting knows Australia will have to withstand the 'Freddie effect' if they want to retain the Ashes... more

Ponting confirms Edgbaston fan altercation

06.08.09
Australia captain Ricky Ponting confirmed he was involved in a heated exchange with a fan during the third npower Test draw at Edgbaston... more

Cricket chiefs silence England's Barmy Army trumpeter

05.08.09
Killjoy cricket officials have banned the Barmy Army's Billy the Trumpet from playing during Friday's Fourth Test as authorities announced they would be clamping down on unruly behaviour at Headingley... more

Brett Lee's return won't be able to swing it for Ponting

05.08.09
If ever there was a moment when Australia's captain Ricky Ponting realised that the glory days were over it occurred on Sunday afternoon at Edgbaston... more

Ponting loses temper with a door

04.08.09
Ricky Ponting took out his Third Test frustrations on a dressing room door at Edgbaston... more

Green giant Ricky Ponting has little time for record as he eyes victory

30.07.09
One of the few certainties of this unpredictable Ashes series is that Australia captain Ricky Ponting will be jeered whenever he walks to the wicket... more

Ponting backing misfiring Mitchell Johnson

29.07.09
Ricky Ponting has given the clearest indication yet that Australia are ready to stick with misfiring fast bowler Mitchell Johnson for the Third Ashes Test... more

Sporting Miscellanies

28.07.09
Attendance wise, the Wembley Cup was a tournament of two halves... more

Kevin Pietersen's absence piles pressure on Andrew Flintoff, says Ricky Ponting

27.07.09
Ricky Ponting believes Kevin Pietersen's absence from the rest of the Ashes series will place even greater strain on Andrew Flintoff... more

Advantage Andrew Strauss in the Ashes mind game

22.07.09
Apart from burying 75 years of unhappy memories, the most significant thing about England's famous victory at Lord's is that everyone now knows Ricky Ponting's team can be beaten.... more

We will put this right, says Ricky Ponting as he weighs up changes for Edgbaston

20.07.09
Ricky Ponting has backed his squad to bounce back from their defeat but refused to rule out changes for the Third Test... more

Ricky Ponting fears hostile Steve Harmison

15.07.09
Ricky Ponting believes Steve Harmison will play in the Second Test at Lord’s regardless of Andrew Flintoff’s fitness... more

Early optimism turns to misery as Australia regroup with run-fest

10.07.09
England were in danger of being buried under a mountain of runs at Sophia Gardens as Australia shrugged off the loss of three wickets in 10 overs and regained control of the first Ashes Test... more

England must stand up and be counted

08.07.09
Captain Strauss tells his men to fight for every inch with the Aussies as war of words ends and the real battle begins... more

Ponting targets 2005 Ashes revenge

07.07.09
Australia captain Ricky Ponting is aiming to rectify the one major achievement in his career to elude him so far - captaining his country to an Ashes series win in England... more

Kumar Sangakkara warns England to beware Australia backlash

09.06.09
Cricket: They are missing talented Symonds but rival skipper believes Ponting’s side will be up for the Ashes ... more

Phillip Hughes will haunt home side, insists Ricky Ponting

19.05.09
Cricket: Australia captain Ricky Ponting believes Middlesex's decision to sign batting sensation Phillip Hughes could return to haunt England in the Ashes... more

Andrew Symonds boosted by Ricky Ponting

19.05.09
Cricket: Ricky Ponting has given his strongest hint yet that Andrew Symonds's Test exile will be over when selectors name their Ashes squad... more

Ponting blasts Australia rout

06.04.09
Cricket: Captain Ricky Ponting was horrified by Australia's seven-wicket defeat to South Africa and has admitted: "That was as bad as we've played in a long time."... more

Ricky Ponting unfazed by Australia's Twenty20 flop

30.03.09
Football: Ricky Ponting laughed off suggestions that Australia are on the ropes ahead of Friday's first one-day international against South Africa ... more

Aussies earn victory over South Africa

02.03.09
Cricket: Australia captain Ricky Ponting and his men secured victory in the first match of their three-Test series against South Africa at the Wanderers ... more

Aussie decline has started in earnest

30.12.08
Australia's stunning fall from super-team to aging strugglers was confirmed in Melbourne as South Africa sealed a historic nine-wicket victory... more

Ponting's ton lifts Aussies

09.10.08
India as Australia reached 254 for four by the close on the opening day of the series in Bangalore... more

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