Australian supremacy is back and their winning spree continues when the greats are in the team. The team is again becoming invincible since they have not lost even a single match back at home this summer. Significantly, the only match they have not won was against West Indies in Adelaide.
Shane Warne told that current bunch of Australian players must take the game to the next level by the scruff of the neck. Warne, one of the greatest leg-spinner of our times, has accepted that Ricky Ponting’s boys are doing well with bat and ball but should try harder to reach newer heights.
Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has assured that his team would maintain aggression against visiting West Indian team to regain back the top ICC test spot. Ponting revealed his ambition after his team defeated the tourists with clinical precision in the first test in Gabba. Australia has beaten West Indies by an inning and 65 runs and displayed solidity in its approach.
India has reached the 3rd position in ICC rankings following their 4-2 home series defeat against the mighty Australians. India had all the advantages to win the series and reach the top spot. Indian team is one of the toughest teams to beat on home ground. Moreover, Australian side was affected by injuries as most of the key players returned home. It was a thin Australian team packed with inexperienced youngsters. But Australians fought bravely to reaffirm their number one position in ICC rankings.
Injury problem has surfaced in Australian camp after the first ODI match against India. Like Indians suffering from injures woes to their key players like Zaheer Khan, Yuvraj Singh and Munaf Patel, Australian alrounder James Hopes, fast bowlers Brett Lee and Mitchell Johnson are affected by injuries in the on-going ODI series against India.
World no.1 Australians has won no.2 Indians by 4 runs in a humdinger of a match. Harbhajan Singh and Praveen Kumar have shared record 84 run partnership for the eighth wicket, almost took India to the glimpse of the victory. But Australian professionalism came all the way through and fetched them a somewhat a deserved victory.
No wonder Australian cricket constantly tops the world cricket for a long time after seeing their domestic teams are highly competitive and even capable of winning other national teams. We have witnessed all Aussies first semi-finals in the Champions League. Now New South Wales Blues even overcome thunderous Trinidad and Tobago by beating them in the final by 41 runs.
Australian team is upbeat after winning Champions Trophy consecutively for the second time, when they are playing seven one-day internationals against Indians in their homeland. But as Australian team took flight to India, Australian skipper Ricky Ponting fears that Indians are tough to beat in their country.
In a crucial match between Australia and Pakistan, the former clinched the victory by 2 wickets while chasing the modest total of 205 set by latter. By this victory Australia reached the semifinals without dispute. In other side, India knocked out of the Champions Trophy even though they have convincingly won West Indies.
Australians are capable of peaking in to superior form in the crunch games. Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has told that they would beat Pakistan in tomorrow’s encounter and will directly qualify for the semi finals. As he points out, if Australia wins tomorrow, then the India-West Indies match happening day after tomorrow would become irrelevant. He categorically told his team want to be the number one team in the world again and preparing hard for that.
