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Ponting has many reasons for ditching T-20 | Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting has said that his desire to play the World Cup in 2011 and to prolong
his Test career were two key reasons for giving a miss to international Twenty20 cricket. Ponting, who will be playing his 334th one-day international, the most
by an Australian, when his high-flying team meets Pakistan at the WACA Ground
tomorrow, said: ''I'd be lying if I said we weren't already looking towards the
World Cup.'' ''It's important that you start planning a long way out. The standards
we've set in our last few tournaments have been very, very high, and it's important
you get some experience into some players you might need in a tournament like
that. We're definitely on the right track. I have some of my fondest memories
out of the gae from winning World Cups - and I want to get some more,'' he added.
''I didn't retire from Twenty20 because I thought I was better at one-dayers or
anything like that. The way the schedule is, there's a lot more international
one-day cricket on, so by missing the T20s, it gives me another two or three weeks
off a year but I still don't really miss out on many games for Australia ,” Ponting
said. ''The World Cup is the big thing. I'm proud of what Australia has achieved
there and, outside of Tests, that's what I'm really looking towards. Fifty-over
cricket is a wonderful game, and the pinnacle of the shorter game is the World
Cup, which I have been lucky enough to play a few of. I'm looking forward to
playing another one and seeing if we can be successful again,'' he added. |
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