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Title: Ponting Resigns Captaincy....
Post by: Number5 on March 29, 2011, 02:23:53 AM: Sitting in an airport lounge many miles from home and just saw the breaking news ticker run along the bottom of BBC World channel on the tv...
BREAKING NEWS: Ponting resigns captaincy

....does anyone care?
Title: Re: Ponting Resigns Captaincy....
Post by: Cover_Drive on March 29, 2011, 03:24:23 AM: In the current era I haven't seen a great player have a good end to his career, name the player and most of them won't have a great end to there careers.
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Post by: pacman75cricket on March 29, 2011, 05:45:32 AM: I really like ponting as a batsman glad we will continue to see him as he still a class batsmen. Also remember not so long ago Tendulkar being written off by some + he has been awesome for the last few years
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Post by: A-Swing-And-A-Miss on March 29, 2011, 06:27:40 AM: Quote from: Cover_Drive on March 29, 2011, 03:24:23 AM
In the current era I haven't seen a great player have a good end to his career, name the player and most of them won't have a great end to there careers.

Flintoff?

He won us thr Ashes before retiring, I don't think that is a rubbish way to depart :P
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Post by: Hads45 on March 29, 2011, 06:31:53 AM: He still has the chance to go out on his own terms. To be honest its not going to take groundbreaking performances to stay in the australian team at the moment anyway. Id say he would be looking at this summer at home or next summer at home to finish up and given the quality coming thorugh in australia (lack of that is) I cant see him being forced out.
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Post by: Tumo on March 29, 2011, 06:33:16 AM: Quote from: A-Swing-And-A-Miss on March 29, 2011, 06:27:40 AM
Flintoff?

He won us thr Ashes before retiring, I don't think that is a rubbish way to depart :P
Wouldn't class him as a great!
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Post by: sgcricket on March 29, 2011, 06:35:12 AM: how abt mcgrath and warne retiring after winning the ashes 5-0?
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Post by: keysersolze on March 29, 2011, 07:22:06 AM: I will miss ricky i think he is a superb batsman with plenty more miles left in the tank and his coaches let him down by trying to keep shots in his game he does not have the reactions to play anymore. he is a good guy does a lot for charity and cricket will be at a loss if he leaves the game. Plus side he might go to sommerset so i can pop up and see him play or he will go back to tassie kick back and play for the tigers. God help us if clarke takes over most hated cricketer in Australia, Watson should be next captain!!!!!!
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Post by: iand123 on March 29, 2011, 07:33:41 AM: I wonder if he jumped before he was pushed? Shame really, whilst he sometimes goes over the top, all he has ever wanted to do was win and represent his country with pride.
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Post by: uknsaunders on March 29, 2011, 07:40:56 AM: He was on a downward path for a while. Got found out a bit by Roach, struggled in the ashes badly and some of his captaincy has been poor to say the least. Strauss may be one of the least interesting captains around but at least he doesn't smash up tv's and argue with umpires. Ponting hasn't set a great example in recent months which is a shame as it blights the last few years of good work.
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Post by: Buzz on March 29, 2011, 07:43:36 AM: I have to admit that I am an unabashed Ponting fan.

In this case, I think he was pushed. Still he is a class batsman and was, for a period of time, the luckiest captain in cricket history - then once Langer, Hayden, Gilchrest, Warne, McGrath, Lee retired his limitations were exposed.
Realistically, i would have looked a good captain captaining that lot :)

I hope he gets another few years as a batsman because in full flow he is brilliant to watch.
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Post by: roco on March 29, 2011, 07:53:01 AM: Too true did those lot really need captaining I don't think so but still one of the better bats of recent times apart from being an arrogant tw*t
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Post by: iand123 on March 29, 2011, 08:15:21 AM: Do you think M Clarke (or whoever takes over) will still fancy having Punter in the side? Can still do a (very) good job with the bat but it'd be a bit unsettling in my opinion still having somelike punter around as a new captain
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Post by: Ryan on March 29, 2011, 08:20:40 AM: this has been coming for the last 6months or more, its about time he stood down. he's been poor with the bat and nothing has seemed to go his way.

he's been quality in his careere though, quality batsman and captain. maybe time to start bringing the young guns through?
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Post by: tim2000s on March 29, 2011, 08:32:51 AM: If it was England, we'd be saying "Yes, you're one of our best batsmen, please stay in the side".

How would he get on with that though?
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Post by: uknsaunders on March 29, 2011, 08:35:50 AM: Hussain didn't have to go but did to make room for Strauss. Vaughan packed it in soon after giving up the captaincy.
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Post by: will5210 on March 29, 2011, 08:37:50 AM: I think he'll drop to 5 or 6 in tests (with Kawaja at 3) & score some runs, but probably not in the quantity as he did at his peak.
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Post by: tim2000s on March 29, 2011, 08:50:34 AM: Quote from: uknsaunders on March 29, 2011, 08:35:50 AM
Hussain didn't have to go but did to make room for Strauss. Vaughan packed it in soon after giving up the captaincy.
Yes, but Ponting doesn't have the same injury problems that Vaughan had.
Title: Re: Ponting Resigns Captaincy....
Post by: Buzz on March 29, 2011, 08:56:39 AM: Also watching Vaughan clinging on was pretty undignified - batting at Yorkshire, making no runs - but still hitting the ball really well in the nets!!!

Ponting will flourish without the hassle of captaincy.
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Post by: uknsaunders on March 29, 2011, 09:04:17 AM: It's all guesswork tbh. Some guys (Gooch/Tendulkar) enjoy their best spells as a batsman, while others (Collingwood/Dravid?) start on the slippery slope at 35/36. Without some major reinvention of Gooch proportions, I suspect Ponting is the latter.
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Post by: SempreSami on March 29, 2011, 09:20:21 AM: Quote from: A-Swing-And-A-Miss on March 29, 2011, 06:27:40 AM
Flintoff?

He won us thr Ashes before retiring, I don't think that is a rubbish way to depart :P
Had he retired completely straight after the Ashes rather than chase the Twenty20 dollar post-operation, perhaps.

I thought his announcement on the last day of the County Championship took the attention away from what was a cracking finale.

And his current post-cricket work involves sharing a studio with James Corden. Ouch.
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Post by: keysersolze on March 29, 2011, 09:29:46 AM: Dont you guys worry Ricky is going to get a south african passport or find a long lost Enlish relative and pop up playing for England very soon!!! OOOps sorry that was Pieterson, Strauss, Trott lol well done ricky good career for a guy who was a servant to the game bloody hope he does not do a tendulkar and sudenly stat hitting the big runs or a lot of people aka selectors at Cricket Australia will have egg on their faces.
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Post by: Coach on March 29, 2011, 10:35:43 AM: the Australians in the past have never kept ex captains in and around the squad for long...
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Post by: roco on March 29, 2011, 10:38:31 AM: But they had talent to call upon before can't see too many pushing ponting at the min
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Post by: Johng on March 29, 2011, 10:41:10 AM: As a Captain, one of Australia's worst.

As a batsman, in full flight as good as any. Will be good to see what he does with the weight is off his shoulders.
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Post by: langer17 on March 29, 2011, 11:25:47 AM: Quote from: Buzz on March 29, 2011, 07:43:36 AM
I have to admit that I am an unabashed Ponting fan.

In this case, I think he was pushed. Still he is a class batsman and was, for a period of time, the luckiest captain in cricket history - then once Langer, Hayden, Gilchrest, Warne, McGrath, Lee retired his limitations were exposed.
Realistically, i would have looked a good captain captaining that lot :)

I hope he gets another few years as a batsman because in full flow he is brilliant to watch.

The problem was that while all these legends were still playing, no young talent was getting ago and developing. All of those players pretty much left at the same time, so they had all these new players with minimal experience come into the side.

Even now at first class level, you have all these older blokes who are never going to play for Australia, but they keep playing because they get a fair bit of money, and why would they give that up. So instead of young talent getting a go and developing then maybe playing for Australia at around 23 or 24 years of age, they are only coming into a first class side at 26 or 27 and by the time they develop and lay a platform, they are a bit older and are less likely to ever play for Australia.
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Post by: Opener on March 29, 2011, 01:34:35 PM: Never liked Ponting as a captain but as a batsman its another story. I modeled my batting after him when I was a kid.