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    Ponting’s mission

    By Will 2 years ago, at the end of November Leave a comment on this post

    I couldn’t decide whether Ricky Ponting’s decision not to enforce the follow-on was the old Ponting or the new. One the one hand, he was rubbing England’s bloodied noses in the dirt. On the other, he has given them a window of opportunity to save the game - especially if you believe the rumour Australia will bat until lunch today. England would then need to survive five sessions on a wearing pitch against Glenn McGrath, Stuart Clark and Shane Warne. Unlikely? Yes. But this is cricket - odd, inexplicable things happen.

    Can you imagine the response from the media if Australia draw this Test? Maybe England can use that delicious thought as inspiration.

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  • Harry wrote:
    November 27th, 2006 at 4.30 am

    it was a good choice because it gave our aging bowling attack a bit of a rest (maybe it’s too much to ask for mgrath to bowl 2 innings in a row?) and it also meant the pitch’s cracks had more time to get bigger before england would be batting again

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