Ricky Ponting’s captaincy has come under flak in recent times, especially from the Aussie media. So let us look closely into his functioning in the 2003 world cup and in the current world cup and see if we can spot what’s going wrong.
Back in 2003:
Brett Lee has just finished an over of fiery fast-bowling. Ricky has to decide whom to give the next over to. He looks up at the scoreboard and sees:
McGrath : 7-2-21-2
Bichel : 5-0-14-1
Hogg : 3-0-10-0
Ricky says to himself (With a smirk on his face), “Oh! They are all good. I’ll just go ‘Inky pinky ponkey…’ and select one of them”
Cut to 2011:
Brett Lee has just finished an over of fiery fast-bowling. Ricky has to decide whom to give the next over to. He looks up at the scoreboard and sees:
Johnson : 7-0-50-0
Tait : 5-0-40-0
Krejza : 6-0-48-0
Ricky says to himself (With a scorn on his face), “Oh! They are all bad. I’ll just go ‘Inky pinky ponkey…’ and select one of them”
There it is, folks!! Ricky hasn’t been doing anything different. It’s just the difference in quality of the bowling line-up.
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