Sunday, April 09, 2006

Ponting tastes punch in test match too

Aussie just clean swept the test series against S.A (3 - 0), and seemed like heading towards their best (with the inclusion of Stuart Clark). But surprisingly Bangladesh team rattled the Australian team on the Day 1 of the first test (Ponting already suffered a blow from Bangladesh, in one of the ODI at England). All the batsman played very positively, particularly against Shane Warne. I was surprised to see Nafees play the sweep shots (from out side the off-stump) with 100% success, glorious cover drives and cut shots. He played too cleanly and I think Nafees's Innings will inspire the whole team and probably help them in joining the bigger league. Recent failures of Srilanka in both forms of the game means, probably Bangladesh may try to over take SRL's position (if they play just like this test in every 3rd or 4th test they play).

No comments: