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Ponting hails MCG Test win over Pakistan | Ricky Ponting today became Test cricket's most winning player and captain after Australia won the first Test over Pakistan in emphatic fashion. Ponting declared the win
one of the side's best in years. "It's been a great game for us, it's one of our
best Test wins in quite a while I think," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Ponting,
as saying. "Right from the start of the game with the Katich and Watson partnership
it set a foundation for a very good Test match. The bowling through the game was
as good as it has been in our team for the last couple of years," he added. Off-spinner
Nathan Hauritz claimed his first ever five-wicket haul in an innings in a Test
or even first class match with an impressive display to mop up the Pakistan innings
today. "What players like him need is just that break-out performance," Ponting
said. "Unless you have got over the line and really done it when it matters you
will always have doubts about yourself and whether you can do it and today in
Nathan's career could be one of those really big turning points. Let's hope for
Nathan's sake this will be a really big kick-start to his Test career," Ponting
added. Hauritz was on a hat-trick at one point, as was Mitchell Johnson in the
first over of the day, as Australia rolled through Pakistan to bowl them out eight
minutes after lunch and claim a 170-run win. It was Hauritz's best ever Test performance
- especially when bracketed with his highest Test score of 75 with the bat. "Being
able to have a total of 420 to be able to bowl to on the last day just gives you
the opportunity to have more attacking fields and allows us to attack in different
ways. Also being able to talk to Warney and guys like that has been very helpful,"
Hauritz told Channel Nine. |
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