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Ponting wants improvement in Australian One-Day side
Cairns (Australia), Aug 01: Australian One-Day captain Ricky Ponting wants more intensity from his team in its three-match series with Bangladesh despite the visitors not coming close to winning any previous matches.
Cairns (Australia), Aug 01: Australian One-Day
captain Ricky Ponting wants more intensity from his team in
its three-match series with Bangladesh despite the visitors
not coming close to winning any previous matches.
Ponting today said he doesn't want the Australians to
take shortcuts or lose intensity as they did in the Caribbean
earlier this year when Australia lost three matches in a row
at the end of a seven-match series after taking a winning 4-0
lead.
"That hurt a little bit," Ponting said. "I was
particularly disappointed with the way we played those last
three games. We made mistakes that you haven't seen this team
make for a long time.
"We didn't respect the basics of the game and if you
don't do that in One-Day cricket it's going to come back and
bite you every time."
In the three games between the two countries,
Australia has always bowled first and has never batted for
more than 26 Overs in successfully chasing small Bangladesh
totals.
The first two matches will be played tomorrow and on Sunday in Cairns. The third is scheduled for next Wednesday in Darwin.
Bureau Report
The first two matches will be played tomorrow and on Sunday in Cairns. The third is scheduled for next Wednesday in Darwin.
Bureau Report