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Aug 18, 2010

Ricky Ponting Targets Ashes Series

Australian skipper, Ricky Ponting is confident regarding the winning and clean sweeping the Ashes series with 5 - 0 against the England.

Ricky Pointing as a captain, Aussies lost the Ashes for two times. Australia lost the 2009 series with 1-2 with England.  Ponting says that his team learnt a lot from the last year Ashes Series and also, now, he had a better team than last year.

The opening test match of Ashes starts on 25th Nov. On Monday, Ponting met Cricket Australia officials in Melbourne to plan out preparations for the upcoming Ashes series. Ponting told to the press that “It’s how well we play and how well we take charge of different situations.” When reported asked for 5 - 0 sweep.

Ponting is much confident with his current team and says that they have made mistakes in the last season which affected the series. Now, everybody is ready to accept the challenges and not in a position to repeat the same mistakes.

Aussies had strong and well experienced players in the team than the England team. The playing conditions are also more supportive for the Aussies. All this together would really help the Aussies to make wonderful start as well as end for the Ashes.

On the other side, England is going with great momentum with winning the opening two of four Tests this month against Pakistan."(James) Anderson and (Stuart) Broad are really playing well for England.

Aussies has to face India in October which is the most important tour for the preparations of Ashes, but it won’t be that much easy as they consider.

Let’s wait for the super action in October and November.