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Ponting to decide future in next few days

Ricky Ponting said he will decide his international future over the next few days, but insisted he still has a lot to offer Australian cricket. The captain's return home after Australia's World Cup quarter-final elimination by India corresponds with calls for his replacement as Australia's Test and one-day skipper.

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The redemption of Yuvraj and Ponting

Years of heartbreak and disappointment finally came down crashing.

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Ponting ‘overburdened’, says John Buchanan

Ricky Ponting has been overburdened as Australian captain and let down by people in leadership roles, former coach John Buchanan said on Friday.

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Ponting’s future in hands of selectors

 

Ponting, 36, confirmed in his column in The Australian newspaper on Saturday that he has played in his last World Cup and that his immediate playing future was up to the discretion of the national selectors.

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Ponting faces axe after World Cup exit

Ricky Ponting has subdued calls for his dumping as captain with a stoic overdue century despite Australia making their earliest exit from a World Cup in almost two decades, newspapers said.

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Ponting backs India to beat Pakistan

Australia captain Ricky Ponting predicted India would beat Pakistan when the arch-rivals meet in the World Cup semi-finals after seeing the co-hosts end his team's 12-year run as champions.

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Yuvraj knocks Australia out of World Cup

By Julian Guyer

 

Yuvraj Singh was India's hero yet again as the hosts ended Australia's 12-year reign as World Cup champions with a five-wicket quarter-final victory on Thursday. The left-hander's unbeaten 57 -- his fourth fifty of a tournament where he is averaging over a hundred -- saw his team home after they'd been wobbling at 187 for five.

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Captain Dhoni regains Midas touch!

Call it luck, call it brilliance, call it what you will, but its back.

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India halt Australia’s run in World Cups; enter semis

By Jamie Alter

 

In a match with many types of ebb and flow, Yuvraj Singh and Suresh Raina provided the pivotal coil as India knocked the world champions out of the World Cup and set up the mother of all semi-finals in Mohali.

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Ponting century takes Australia to a competitive score

By Jamie Alter

 

Cometh the hour, cometh the man. In the cauldron of a World Cup quarter-final against India, in India, Ricky Ponting applied himself immensely in conditions not entirely ideal for batting, handling the fast men and spinners with aplomb.

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