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From the daily archives: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
ADELAIDE: With India looking down the barrel yet again, former captain Sourav Ganguly feels the struggling visitors should have played two spinners in the ongoing fourth and final Test against Australia as the conditions here appear to be “closest to subcontinent”.
Captain Michael Clarke (140) and Ricky Ponting (137) struck [...]
COLOMBO: South African Graham Ford has been named Sri Lanka’s new coach in a series of changes aimed at improving the standard of the national cricket team, the government information department said on Tuesday.
Ford will replace Australian Geoff Marsh after the team struggled in South Africa, losing the Test [...]
ADELAIDE: After another embarrassing day of Test cricket, India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said they weren’t fazed by Australia amassing 335/3 and were plain unlucky on Tuesday.
Captains past and present, Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke, scored hundreds as Australia laid the foundation for a big first-innings score on the opening [...]
ADELAIDE: After another embarrassing day of Test cricket, India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin said they weren’t fazed by Australia amassing 335/3 and were plain unlucky on Tuesday.
Captains past and present, Ricky Ponting and Michael Clarke, scored hundreds as Australia laid the foundation for a big first-innings score on the opening [...]
ADELAIDE: Ricky Ponting said his exuberant celebration of his 41st Test century in the fourth Test against India on Tuesday was not a sign of any impending retirement.
The 37-year-old became only the third batsman in history to pass 13,000 Test runs on his way to 137 not out in [...]
ADELAIDE: India have nothing to lose in their irretrievable series position and have a license to play their natural game against rampant Australia, spinner Ravi Ashwin said on Tuesday.
The Indian tourists found themselves in a familiar position in the fourth Test, slaving away in the field on a stifling day as [...]
NEW DELHI: Ricky Ponting and captain Michael Clarke hit unbeaten centuries to take the Australian first innings to 335/3 at stumps on the first day of the fourth and final Test against India at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.
Indian tactics were utterly perplexing as stand-in [...]
NEW DELHI: Hammering the Indian bowling attack into submission, Ricky Ponting and captain Michael Clarke hit centuries on the first day of the fourth and final Test against India at the Adelaide Oval on Tuesday.
Clarke reached his 19th Test century soon after Ponting reached his [...]
ADELAIDE: Former Australian captain Ricky Ponting became the third batsman to score 13,000 Test runs on the first day of the fourth Test against India on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old swept a single to deep square leg off the bowling of R Ashwin 20 minutes before tea to move past the [...]
NEW DELHI: Ricky Ponting continued his ‘love affair’ with the Adelaide Oval as he hit his 41st century on the first day of the fourth and final Test against India on Tuesday.
This is Ponting’s sixth century at the Adelaide Oval and the fourth against India [...]
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