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Ponting ready to end his Indian curse, serve up a run blitz

Australian captain Ricky Ponting is ready to end his Indian curse and serve up a run blitz in the forthcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, according to the team's assistant coach and former Indian coach Greg Chappell.

Ponting ready to end his Indian curse, serve up a run blitz

Australian captain Ricky Ponting is ready to end his Indian curse and serve up a run blitz in the forthcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, according to the team's assistant coach and former Indian coach Greg Chappell.

Ponting determined to come good

Ricky Ponting does not gloss over the fact that he has been a veritable dud with the bat on Indian soil but the Australian believes he can break the jinx this time and erase the lone blot from an otherwise impeccable career. Ponting averages a pathetic 12.28 in India, a jinxed land for the Aussie captain where runs simply stop flowing from his otherwise prolific blade and his mojo deserts him. "You are spot on," Ponting said here today, when reminded of his dismal record on Indian soil.

Ponting tells of request to drop complaint

NAGPUR (Agencies): Ricky Ponting has said he was approached by a senior member of the India touring party during the acrimonious Sydney Test and asked to drop Australia’s complaint against Harbhajan Singh. Harbhajan was alleged to have racially abused Andrew Symonds during the game and Ponting said that even before Harbhajan’s three-Test ban was handed down it was clear the matter would not be straightforward. Ponting’s recollections are revealed in his Captain’s Diary 2008, an extract of which has been published in the Weekend Australian. “On the night after we made our on-field report about Harbhajan, I had a phone conversation with a senior member of the Indian touring party, who asked me straight to drop the complaint,� Ponting wrote.

Indian Flag Placed on the Moon

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) are justifiably proud of their latest achievement. In an historic event, the Indian space program managed to place the Indian tricolour on the Moon’s surface on November 14, 2008, anniversary of the birth of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India'sfirst Prime Minister. The Indian flag was painted on the sides of the Moon Impact Probe (MIP), one of the 11 payloads of Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, that successfully hit the lunar surface 8:31 pm IST. This is the first Indian built object to reach the surface of the moon. The point of MIP’s impact was near the Moon’s South Polar Region.

Ponting confronts Indian curse

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Ponting confident of ending his Indian curse: Chappell

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is more determined than ever to improve his dismal record against India in the upcoming four-Test series, said batting great Greg Chappell.

Ponting confident of ending his Indian curse: Chappell

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is more determined than ever to improve his dismal record against India in the upcoming four-Test series, said batting great Greg Chappell.

Ponting ends India lean trot with crafty century

BANGALORE: Skipper Ricky Ponting ended his run drought on Indian soil with a superb century as Australia came back strongly after a shock start in the first Test on Thursday. Ponting hit 123 to steer the tourists away from the first-over dismissal of Matthew Hayden to a more comfortable 254-4 by stumps on the opening day at the Chinnaswamy stadium here. Ponting, who won the toss and elected to take first strike in good batting conditions, put on 166 for the second wicket with Simon Katich after Hayden was caught behind off the third ball of the match by Zaheer Khan.

Indian players crossed the line: Ponting

Mohali, Oct 21 (PTI) Ricky Ponting did not say it in unambiguous terms but the Australian skipper believes Indian cricketers overstepped the line in the war of words that surrounded the just-concluded second Test.

Indian player asked me to drop racism charge: Ponting

MELBOURNE, Nov 8: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is all set to kick up a fresh storm with claims that a senior member of the Indian team asked him to drop the charges of racial abuse against Harbhajan Singh during the acrimonious Sydney Test occurred earlier this year.

Ricky Ponting claims that a senior member of the Indian team asked him to drop t...

Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is all set to kick up a fresh storm with claims that a senior member of the Indian team asked him to drop the charges of racial abuse against Harbhajan Singh during the bitter Sydney Test row earlier this year.

Senior Indian player asked me to drop racism charges: Ponting

Melbourne (PTI): Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is all set to kick up a fresh storm with claims that a senior member of the Indian cricket team asked him to drop the charges of racial abuse against Harbhajan Singh during the bitter Sydney Test row earlier this year.

Harbhajan helps prolong Ponting's Indian bummer

Following Ricky Ponting's precision 100 on the opening day of the Border-Gavaskar series, only one question remained about a man who appeared to have beaten his Indian stumbling block.

Senior Indian player asked me to drop racism charges: Ponting

Melbourne, Nov 8 (PTI) Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is all set to kick up a fresh storm with claims that a senior member of the Indian cricket team asked him to drop the charges of racial abuse against Harbhajan Singh during the bitter Sydney Test row earlier this year.

Ponting 'ready to erupt'

RICKY Ponting is ready to end his Indian curse and serve up a run blitz in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series, according to Greg Chappell.

Ponting thanks Chappell for success

Australian captain Ricky Ponting (R) with former Test great Greg Chappell at a training session in Jaipur in September, 2008. Ponting has praised the coaching work of Chappell in helping the Australian team adjust to the demands of batting in Indian conditions.

Indian techies in the US still optimistic

While the gruesome murders of two Indian families in the US recently in the wake of economic slowdown have raised questions about the safety of jobs of persons of Indian origin working in the country, an interaction with a few Indian families living and working in the US shows that there is no pessimism over what the future holds for them. For those Indians who are frugal in their ways of life and who swear by the virtues of hard work and keenness to improve their skill -sets, the economic recession does not look like the end of the road. The techies with whom

Ponting lashes out at Sunny

Ricky Ponting has lashed out at Indian legend Sunil Gavaskar and other former players for often blaming the Australian team for on-field confrontations, saying the Indian opener was not an angel during his playing days.

Ponting slams Gavaskar

Ricky Ponting has lashed out at legendary Indian Sunil Gavaskar and other former players for often blaming the Australian team for on-field confrontations, saying the Indian opener was not an angel during his playing days.

Ponting: Sunil Gavaskar was no angel

Melboune: Australian captain Ricky Ponting has lashed out at former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar and other former players for often blaming the Australian team for on-field confrontations, saying the Indian opener was not an angel during his playing days.

Lara backs Ponting to overtake Tendulkar's record

MELBOURNE, Oct 22 (UNI): West Indian great Brian Lara has tippedRicky Ponting to take over the record of maximum Test runs fromSachin Tendulkar and said there was no better person he couldhave passed the mantle on to than the Indian batting maestro whobroke his record in the second Test against Australia at Mohali.

Warne hopes Ponting learns from mistakes

Shane Warne believes Ricky Ponting could learn something from Allan Border and Ian Chappell, two of the former captains who criticised Ponting over his tactics in the fourth Test in Nagpur. But Warne said although Ponting made some bad decisions it was important he was not hung out to dry.

Monkey off Ponting's back, finally

The 'new-age' type of Test cricket Ricky Ponting had promised from his team wasn't quite on view, though Thursday could just mark the dawn of a new era for Ponting the batsman on Indian soil.

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