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Ponting seeks to play Test in right spirit; Aussies head to India for series

SYDNEY, Sept 21, (AFP): Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Sunday he was hopeful next month’s four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit. The 15-man Australian squad left here late Sunday with only four players armed with Test match experience in India. The nations were embroiled in an acrimonious series in Australia this year with Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh banned for three matches for allegedly racially abusing Australian allrounder Andrew Symonds during the second Test in Sydney in January. The suspension was later overturned following an appeal hearing, but the relations between the two sides deteriorated as senior Australian batsman Matthew Hayden called Harbhajan an “obnoxious weed” on radio during the subsequent one-day series.

Ponting seeks to play India series in right spirit

SYDNEY: Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Sunday he was hopeful next month's four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit. The 15-man Australian squad left here late Sunday with only four players armed with Test match experience in India.

Ponting seeks to play India cricket series in right spirit (AFP)

Australian captain Ricky Ponting at a practice session in June, 2008. Ponting has said he was hopeful next month's four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit.

Ponting seeks to play India cricket series in right spirit

Australian captain Ricky Ponting at a practice session in June, 2008. Ponting has said he was hopeful next month's four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit.

Ponting seeks to play India series in right spirit

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Sunday he was hopeful next month's four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit.

Ponting seeks to play India cricket series in right spirit

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Sunday he was hopeful next month's four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit.

Ponting seeks to play India in right spirit

Australian captain Ricky Ponting said Sunday he was hopeful next month's four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit.

Ponting wants healthy rivalry, not acrimony, against India

Melbourne, Sep 21 (PTI) The bad blood of last summer still fresh in mind, Australia captain Ricky Ponting does not want acrimony to vitiate his team's healthy rivalry with India in the forthcoming Test series. Before leaving for India to play a four-match Test series, Ponting told reporters in Sydney that he expected both the sides to play the game in the right spirit.

India, England hit by injuries ahead of cricket series

NEW DELHI: Pace bowlers Ishant Sharma of India and Ryan Sidebottom of England will miss Friday's opening match of the seven-game one-day series in Rajkot due to injuries. Sharma, 20, suffered an ankle sprain during the recent Test series against Australia and has been advised to rest for five days, the Board of Control for Cricket in India said in a statement. The lanky fast bowler was judged the man of the series for his 15 wickets as India took the Border-Gavaskar Trophy with a 2-0 win over Ricky Ponting's world champions on Sunday. Left-armer Sidebottom will sit out the opener due to an Achilles tendon problem picked up during England's brief tour of the West Indies earlier this month. England were, however, hopeful that paceman Stuart Broad will play in Rajkot after suffering a knee injury during a practice match in Mumbai on Sunday.

India's biggest Test victory in Test cricket

Mohali: India crushed Australia by a record 320 runs on Day 5 of the second Test in Mohali. India lead the 4-match Test series 1-0.The 320-run win is India's biggest win in its 76-year old Test history.

Ponting seeks to play India series in right spirit

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Ponting seeks to play India cricket series in right spirit

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India, Aussies cricket Test ends in draw

NEW DELHI (Agenices): The third Test between India and Australia ended in a tame draw here on Sunday but not before the host captain Anil Kumble announced his retirement from Test cricket. The Indians declared their second innings on 208-5 to set the tourists an improbable target of 245 from 23 overs. The visitors, who made 577 all out in their first innings, were 31-0 when the teams decided to call off play with 15 overs still remaining in the day. Openers Matthew Hayden (16) and Simon Katich (14) were at the crease when stumps were drawn. The Border-Gavaskar series, which India lead 1-0 after winning the second game in Mohali, heads to Nagpur for the fourth and final match from November 6-10. The opener in Bangalore ended in a draw. With the action on the field being only of academic interest, Kumble, 38, announced he was quitting the T

Ponting hoping for the right spirit

SYDNEY — Australian captain Ricky Ponting said yesterday he was hopeful next month’s four-Test cricket series with India will be played in the right spirit.

Ponting backs Watson for Test series against India

Australian captain Ricky Ponting has strongly backed all-rounder Shane Watson for the four-match Test series against India starting next month.

Ponting backs Watson for Test series against India

MELBOURNE, Sept 20: Australian captain Ricky Ponting has strongly backed all-rounder Shane Watson for the four-match Test series against India starting next month.

PCB sticks to hosting India cricket series in Pakistan

ABU DHABI: Pakistan cricket officials Saturday termed shifting of their home series against India to neutral venues as “mere speculation”, saying preparations are at full swing in their country. India is scheduled to tour Pakistan in January-February to play a side game, three Tests, five one-day internationals and a Twenty20 but the tour is already in doubt over the security situation in the host country. But Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief operating officer Salim Altaf voiced confidence the series would go ahead as per the schedule. “We have not heard anything from the Indian Board and until we hear something contrary, Indian team will play the first match on the 9th January in Hyderabad and the first Test starts on the 13th in Karachi,” Altaf told reporters.

India seal series with resounding 4th test win

NAGPUR, India, Nov 10 (Reuters) - India sealed their first test series victory over top-ranked Australia in seven years on Monday after Amit Mishra and Harbhajan Singh spun the hosts to a resounding 172-run win in the fourth and final test.

England focused despite Stanford debacle: Pietersen

MUMBAI: England will put aside memories of last week’s humiliating Stanford Twenty20 $20 million challenge defeat as they prepare for a tough one-day and Test series in India, skipper Kevin Pietersen said on Friday. “This series is going to be very difficult,” he told a news conference ahead of the one-day and test series. “India is playing fantastic cricket right now and it is tough beating India in India. We’ve been playing good cricket as well, we beat South Africa 4-0. We’re obviously looking to improve.”

India-Oz series: Bradman would have called it `bloody good Test cricket'

Sydney, Nov.15 : The recently concluded four-Test series between India and Australia, which India won two nil, would have been described by Australian cricketing legend Sir Donald Bradman as 'Bloody Good Test Cricket'.

Mohali Test: Row among Aussies, Ponting denies

Mohali Test: Row among Aussies MOHALI: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting on Tuesday played down reports of a row with star fast bowler Brett Lee during the second Test against India here.

Ponting's Australians arrive in India for acid test

Jaipur: The Ricky Ponting-led Australian cricket team arrived in India on Monday afternoon at the Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport for the eagerly awaited Test series against hosts India and then proceeded straightaway to Jaipur to commence their preparations.

Ponting looks forward to a trouble-free Test series

After the acrimony of the last series between the two sides, people will be justified in looking forward to more fireworks when India and Australia lock horns again in a four-Test series starting next week. Ricky Ponting, however, made it clear that his side wasn't looking for trouble.

Aussies defeat makes cricket better: Gayle

ABU DHABI (APP): West Indian captain Chris Gayle Wednesday said Australia’s Test series defeat in India could be a turning point in international cricket that will make the game better. India beat Australia 2-0 in the four-match series, raising hopes that a team other than Australia could become world champions in the future. “India beating Australia is a turning point for us. Getting more wins over such an opponent will make cricket even better,” said Gayle who is here for a three-match series against Pakistan, which started here on Wednesday. Australia’s 2-0 loss to India has prompted experts to predict that the world champions’ dominance of the game is nearing an end, particularly after the retirement of the likes of Glenn McGrath, Shane Warne and Adam Gilchrist.

Spin masterclass for Aussies ahead of India cricket Test

Former India spinner Bishan Singh Bedi (right) with Australian spinner Cameron White during a training session in New Delhi, October 26. Australia were taking some late lessons in spin bowling as they head into the third Test starting on Wednesday, desperate to draw level with a resurgent India.

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