July 2nd, 2009 by admin

Well I would guess you would hear this from English cricket fans but how about from one of Ponting’s countrymen? The Sun quoted Thommo, as saying: “I thought Ricky was crapp when he was first captain in 2004 and nothing much has improved since then. I’m not the only one who thinks that. I’ve always bagged him and everyone at home thinks he’s s**t at the captaincy. He’s a great player but captaincy is a totally different thing.”

“He was in a side that had very good players and now he’s got a side that has average players. He’s still left wanting. You see it on him – he gets frustrated. He worries when the players don’t do what he’s used to with the ball when he passes it to them,” he added.

“The choices he makes, his field settings and the things he does are never right. England has the edge in the captaincy department. But while England have a better captain, Australia have a better line-up,” he said.