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If IPL is extended, Tests will be no more: Ponting

By admin ⋅ November 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

“If the IPL keeps growing … the next generation might opt for franchise over country. Everyone in the game should work towards ensuring that never happens,” he wrote in his new book Captain’s Diary 2008: A Season of Tests, Turmoil and Twenty20 to be released on Thursday.
Via Rediff

Ponting says super-contracts could ruin IPL

By admin ⋅ May 18, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

TEST skipper Ricky Ponting says proposed $15 million Indian Premier League super-contracts could cripple cricket’s sparkling new toy. In an assessment driven by the heart and head rather than the pocket, Ponting has urged IPL bosses not to abolish the $5 million salary cap on each franchise.
More: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23719341-2882,00.html

Ponting hits out at Harbhajan, says he has been unmasked

By admin ⋅ May 10, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Australian captain Ricky Ponting today hit out at Harbhajan Singh, saying that the Indian off-spinner has been unmasked by his attack on teammate S Sreesanth. Ponting said people can now make their own judgment on Harbhajan after the slapping row since it involved his own teammate.
Read more: http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/88321B2BBB17928A65257445004030A7?OpenDocument

Ponting backs Indian Premier League

By admin ⋅ May 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Australian captain Ricky Ponting has urged cricket administrators to create space in the calendar for the Indian Premier League. Ponting returned yesterday from his four-match stint with Kolkata and will join his Australian team mates in camp on Sunday to prepare for the West Indies tour. Ponting says the IPL has a place in the [...]

IPL nurtures cultural understanding: Ponting

By admin ⋅ May 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting says the Indian Premier League (IPL) will help improve relations with players from the sub-continent. Ponting says: “I had Ganguly and Ishant Sharma both in my side. We got on really, really well”. Also said “I think it’s a good opportunity for some of those cultural differences or breakdowns in [...]

Ponting poised to bounce back

By admin ⋅ April 29, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Kolkata Knight Riders coach John Buchanan is confident Ricky Ponting will sign off from the Indian Premier League with a good knock. Ponting has scored only 20 runs in three IPL games, and the match against the Mumbai Indians gives the Australian skipper a final chance to get a decent innings behind his name before [...]

Knight Riders announce 14-man squad

By admin ⋅ April 17, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Five foreign players have been included in the Kolkata Knight Riders’ 14-man squad for their first two matches in the Indian Premier League. Knight Riders play the lung opener against Bangalore Royal Challengers in Bangalore on Friday and take on Deccan Chargers (Hyderabad) in a home tie two days later.
Chris Gayle, Ricky Ponting, Brendon McCullum, [...]

Sourav gets down to business

By admin ⋅ April 16, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Ricky Ponting would be part of the Kolkata Knight Riders’ think tank in the Indian Premier League. The Australian captain will be among the core group apart from captain Sourav Ganguly and the support staff that includes coach John Buchanan and assistant coach Matthew Mott.
Sourav was present during the team’s practice session at the Eden [...]

IPL will help young Indian players: Ponting

By admin ⋅ April 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Australian captain Ricky Ponting feels the Indian Premier League (IPL) will help young Indian players to mature.
“The opportunity the young Indian players will get to play with experienced International cricketers will certainly help them mature into good prospect,” he said during an interaction with the media after the first day’s practice session of the Kolkata [...]

Ponting looks forward to play under Ganguly

By admin ⋅ April 13, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Australia skipper Ricky Ponting on Saturday said though the ‘Knight Riders’ would badly miss Pakistan speedstar Shoaib Akhtar, they were however, looking forward to playing great cricket under Sourav Ganguly in the IPL Premier League beginning on April 18 at the Eden Gardens.
” I am feeling excited and the tourney will provide me a great [...]

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