Posts Tagged "captaincy"

I sat and watched a Fox Sports News segment on St Kilda’s captain and leadership group the other day just shaking my head.

20 Have your say

So, Ricky Ponting makes way for Michael Clarke as Australia’s Test and one-day cricket captain. Well, who didn’t see that one coming after the Aussies finished a disappointing sixth at this year’s World Cup?

0 Have your say

Rebecca Wilson’s article in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph titled ‘Give Ricky the flick’, is without doubt one of the worst sporting articles I have read in recent times.

4 Have your say

Michael Clarke is not the captain of Australia. He is the stand-in captain of the country’s one-day international cricket team. Let’s get that out of the way first.

6 Have your say

There was a curious story in the SMH last week suggesting that ‘Michael Clarke will refuse to captain a Test side containing Ricky Ponting.’ I say curious because I was not aware that acting captains, especially those whose form is dubious enough to pose questions about his own selection, decide who should be selected as [...]

14 Have your say

Noted Australian journalist Malcolm Knox has selected a topical subject for his new cricket book, ‘The Captains’. It was interesting reading the 440-page, well-researched book while watching the Tests on television, as current captain Ricky Ponting struggled with the bat and the calls to sack him grew louder.

18 Have your say

Steve Waugh has thrown up the left-field possibility of including two wicketkeeper-batsmen in the Australian team with a view towards grooming either Brad Haddin or Tim Paine as a future Test captain.

2 Have your say

Ricky Ponting is one of the best cricketers to watch when he is on song. The man has played 145 Tests, captained Australia since 2004, and is a pugnacious fighter all the way. Despite these attributes, Ponting does not deserve to captain his country anymore.

3 Have your say

Ricky Ponting has angrily refuted “completely made up” reports of disharmony in the Australian cricket team as the crunch Ashes series looms.

1 Have your say

Call me crazy, call me kooky, but allow me for one moment to entertain the idea of bringing back Shane K. Warne as captain of the Australian Test cricket team for one last Ashes hurrah.

30 Have your say

Though he dare not predict the day nor the hour, Michael Clarke is edging ever closer to the Australian captaincy. Clarke, wary of coveting something not yet his, doubts he will be parachuting into the job anytime soon.

0 Have your say

Ricky Ponting says his decision to quit international Twenty20 cricket will take him one step closer to having a successful Ashes tour in 2013.

14 Have your say

It was been a week since Australia lost the test at the Oval and consequently the Ashes. It has taken me that long to face the truths that currently face Australian cricket…but one of them is not to sack Ricky Ponting.

4 Have your say

There is something about the Ashes which seems to diminish the mental acuity of followers of the game. Some of the articles appearing in the wake of this Ashes series border on the bizarre.

11 Have your say

In the wake of his side’s latest defeat at the hand of a second rate New Zealand outfit, Ricky Ponting has been levelled with criticism this week, with many demanding that he be replaced as captain in all three forms of the game.

9 Have your say

Kevin Pietersen’s exit as England captain, and the sacking of coach Peter Moores, left Australian cricket delighted with their old rivals’ self-inflicted wounds ahead of this year’s Ashes.

0 Have your say

New Brumbies coach Andy Friend believes the captaincy will bring out the best in Stephen Hoiles and ease the load on Wallabies skipper Stirling Mortlock.

9 Have your say

Two obvious clichés came to mind when thinking about this week’s column: “a week is a long time in cricket”, and “what a difference a week makes”.

4 Have your say

Former Australian skipper Steve Waugh added his respected voice to the Ashes build-up on Friday by telling Kevin Pietersen he was wrong to relinquish the England captaincy.

0 Have your say

In the best of all possible worlds, this is the Australian team that I would select for the SCG Test: Simon Katich, Phillip Hughes, Ricky Ponting, Michael Clarke (c), Michael Hussey, Marcus North, Luke Ronchi, Mitchell Johnson, James Hilfenhaus, Peter Siddle, Doug Bollinger.

10 Have your say