Ponting calls 5-0 Ashes win ‘absolutely possible’
Australian Captain Ricky Ponting believes it is “absolutely possible” that Australia can trounce England with a 5-0 Ashes clean-sweep this summer. Although Ponting didn’t quite match Glenn McGrath’s 5-0 prediction from four years ago – which turned out to be correct – he was confident that Australia had learnt from their mistakes and such an outcome was “all in our hands”. The Australians gave up the urn in England last year with a 2-1 defeat and while they have performed strongly since then, a 1-1 draw against Pakistan last month raised a few questions. The Headingley loss was Australia’s first [...]
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India Possibly the Best Team – Flintoff
India’s recent performances against Australia have impressed Andrew Flintoff enough to call them “possibly the best team in the world at the moment”. Despite the retirement of Anil Kumble and Sourav Ganguly, Flintoff said it was going to be tough to overcome India at home. “The big test for us is adapting to the conditions we are going to play in,” Flintoff said in Mumbai. But he felt England were capable of winning their first Test series in India since 1984. “I thought we had a good chance last time. But one bad hour in Mohali cost us the Test [...]
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