Download or read book Ricky Ponting s World Cup Diary written by Ricky Ponting and published by HarperSports. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Australia realised its dreams of winning the World Cup for a historic third time, the smile rarely left Ricky Ponting's face. Leading from the front in the amazing final, the captain played the innings of his life for an unbeaten 140 runs, and powered Australia to victory without having lost a single game on its way.
Download or read book Ricky Ponting s Captain s Diary 2007 written by Ricky Ponting and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-04-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From facing the old foe, England, to a World Cup campaign, Australia's cricket captain charts his year ... In 2006-07, Ricky Ponting's Australian team achieved the first Ashes clean sweep in 86 years, an experience Ponting described as 'the best of my cricketing life'. It featured stunning performances from men such as Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Symonds, while the captain himself drew comparisons with Bradman following his hundreds in the opening two tests.Yet, immediately afterwards, the Australians produced an even more commanding performance at the World Cup in the Caribbean. Not even the bizarre ending to the final againstSri Lanka, in near darkness after officials misinterpreted the playing conditions, could hide the fact that this victory was one of the most dominant in Australian sporting history.It was a season of triumph, but also the last for some of Ponting's great teammates - Warne, Glenn McGrath, Justin Langer and Damien Martyn - and coach John Buchanan, who all announced their retirements.In Captain's Diary 2007, Ponting pays tribute to these men, and in doing so reveals why they, and the team he is privileged to captain, are so special.
Download or read book A Captain s Diary written by Ricky Ponting and published by HarperSports. This book was released on 2004 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Captain's Diary is an inspiring and honest th tourourney from the post-World Cup tour of the West Indies that re-established Australia's place as the official number-one Test nation, to the trip to Zimbabwe that was laced with controversy before a ball was even bowled.In 2004, Ricky Ponting assumed one of the highest honours in Australian sport when he became Australia's 42nd Test captain. Following in the footsteps of the retiring Stephen Waugh : the most successful captain in the history of Test cricket Ponting's first act was to lead his side to a thrilling 3-0 series win in Sri Lanka.During the period covered by this diary , and in addition to the victory in Sri Lanka australia secured series wins over the West Indies, Bangladesh and Zimbabwe and fought a titanic four-match clash with India that finished all square at 1-1. And in the one-day game, Ponting's side built on its World Cup triumph with wins over the West Indies, Bangladesh, New Zealand, India, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka, stretching its winning run to a world-record 21 successive matches.In his diary, Ponting shares behind-the-scenes stories and unique insights into what makes the Australian side so successful, including personal assessments of his champion team-mates. Supported by a comprehensive statistics package and brilliant colour photographs, Ponting's incisive and candid diary is compulsory reading for every cricket fan.
Download or read book A Captain s Diary written by Alec Stewart and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1999-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alec Stewart reflects on a tumultuous cricket year, from his appointment as England captain in the spring of 1998, followed by a stunning Test series victory against the mighty South Africans in the summer, and concluding with an Ashes tour to Australia.
Download or read book The Wrong Line written by Andrew Ramsey and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the age-old sporting truism, what happens on tour sometimes needs to be told. 'For as long as the game of cricket has been played internationally, there have been journos "on the tour" ... Life on the road is tough. But as you are about to experience, it's bloody entertaining as well.' Adam GilchristCricket writer Andrew Ramsey's job was to be on tour with the world's greatest cricket team over a decade when it had no peer. tHE WRONG LINE chronicles the privileges and pitfalls of a life spent trotting the globe, hanging out with sports stars, and being paid to watch cricket - an occupation regarded by countless cricket and travel fans alike as 'the world's best job', even when it renders you alone and in peril with only a three-thumbed taxi driver for support.Set within the players' dressing room and on the team bus; at the bar, the breakfast table, and even in a haunted medieval castle; in England, the West Indies and India, as well as Sharjah, Bangladesh, Kenya and Hong Kong - tHE WRONG LINE gives you a ringside seat at some of the most memorable cricket events, including the remarkable 1999 World Cup and Australia's chaotic 2005 Ashes campaign. A tour diary unlike any you have ever read, it delivers a rare insight into the off-field life, character and thoughts of some of the game's all-time greats, including Stephen Waugh, Shane Warne, Ricky Ponting, Glenn McGrath, Adam Gilchrist and Brian Lara.'this is the cricket book of the summer. You won't find an account of the game its main players told in this way anywhere else. It's a refreshing change, and one well worth the read.' - LAUNCEStON EXAMINER
Download or read book On Warne written by Gideon Haigh and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-25 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A superb portrait of the most brilliant cricketer of his generation' Mike Atherton Shane Warne dominated cricket on the field and off for almost thirty years - his skill, his fame, his personality, his misadventures. His death in March 2002 rocked Australians, even those who could not tell a leg-break from a leg-pull. But what was it like to watch Warne at his long peak, the man of a thousands international wickets, the incarnation of Aussie audacity and cheek? Gideon Haigh saw it all, still can't quite believe it, but wanted to find a way to explain it. In this classic appreciation of Australia's cricket's greatest figure, who doubled as the nation's best-known man, Haigh relieves the highs, the lows, the fun and the follies. The result is a new way of looking at Warne, at sport and at Australia. 'Bloody brilliant... As good as anything I have read on the game' Guardian Winner of The Cricket Society and MCC Book of the Year
Download or read book Ashes Diary 2015 written by Michael Clarke and published by Macmillan Publishers Aus.. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Clarke's diary of the 2015 Ashes - honest, insightful, emotional, explosive. After a stirring 5-0 triumph against England last summer, hopes were high that Michael Clarke's World Cup-winning Australians would seize the Ashes on English soil for the first time since 2001. Ashes Diary 2015 tells the inside story of a remarkable series filled with dramatic twists and turns. Captain Clarke takes us behind the scenes of the Australian squad - into the dressing rooms, onto the tour bus, profiling the players and getting us up close and personal for every team talk, strategy meeting and training session. Day by day, Clarke shares with us the innermost feelings and private thoughts as the Australian captain while he negotiates form breakdowns, selection meltdowns, dizzying highs and despairing lows on the hunt for an historic victory. After 115 Tests over more than a decade, Ashes Diary 2015 is Michael Clarke's straight-shooting farewell to cricket.
Download or read book Game for Anything written by Gideon Haigh and published by Aurum Press Limited. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gideon Haigh's new book covers all the great figures and major issues of cricket, by collecting all his best writing about the game. There are profiles of players past and present - Bradman, Ranjitsinhji, Benaud and Sobers from the past, Steve Waugh, Shane Warne and Wasim Akram from the present. He covers the big issues in the game: sledging, match-fixing, Kerry Packer, Zimbabwe, umpiring. He writes about cricket's best writers - Swanton, C.L.R. James - and ponders the game's most halcyon and unique aspects: slow bowling, captaincy, the essence of good batting. Haigh has now established himself as one of the finest writers on the game - author of one acknowledged masterpiece, Mystery Spinner, a comic classic, Many a Slip - and one of its most most shrewd commentators, who gets widely reviewed both by the cricket media and the national press. This book is likely to attract the same attention.
Download or read book Who s who in Australia 2009 written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 2300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biographic reference to notable people in Australia. Entrants are drawn from all areas of Australian life, including the arts, politics, education, medicine, defence, business, diplomatic service, and recipients of honours and awards.
Download or read book Captain s Diary 2008 written by Ricky Ponting and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was one thing for the Aussie cricket team to become world champions; staying No. 1 is a whole new ball game. 'When the Australian team talks about playing aggressively, we are committing ourselves to playing hard. there's nothing given and there's nothing asked to be given.'- RICKY PONtING, OCtOBER 6, 2007the Australian cricket team's program for 2007-08 was as hectic as ever, featuring the ICC World twenty20 and matches against Sri Lanka, India, New Zealand and the West Indies. As well, many of the Australian players were involved in the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League. Yet when the season began, no one could have imagined it would generate the headlines it did.Much of this coverage came from the acrimonious battles between Australia and India, both in a one-day series in India and then in the tests in Australia that followed. Ricky Ponting was confronted with a series of controversies that none of his predecessors as Australian captain had faced, and now, in Captain's Diary 2008, he explains his side of the story. Many players, including Ponting, who are more used to being treated as heroes, were suddenly cast as villains. Did they really deserve the level of criticism that came their way?the Australian team has changed greatly in the past two years. Having lost a number of champions in 2007, a few more stars - most notably Adam Gilchrist - retired in 2008, and here Ponting pays tribute. He also traces the astounding rise of twenty20, and offers his view as to where this exciting new form of cricket might take the game he loves.
Download or read book Captain s Diary 2009 written by Ricky Ponting and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Season of Tests, Turmoil and Twenty20 Few Australian cricket captains have had a tougher time than that experienced by Ricky Ponting in 2008-09 - a controversial test tour of India, series home and away against South Africa, more than 30 ODIs, the ICC World twenty20. And, finally, the fight for the Ashes.Ponting began the year with a better winning percentage than any other captain in test history, but this adventure ended in disappointment, as his young side fell just short in England after a typically dramatic confrontation. the task of replacing recently retired champions such as Warne, McGrath, Gilchrist and Hayden is still a work in progress. However, this is a story with many positives, as Ponting's Australians produced a number of impressive performances, most notably in South Africa, when they stunned the home side in consecutive matches, and at Leeds, when they completed one of the most decisive test wins of recent times. the emergence of young guns such as Mitchell Johnson, Ben Hilfenhaus, Phillip Hughes and Peter Siddle points to an exciting future. throughout the period of cricket recalled in Ashes Diary 2009, Ponting played with a steely spirit that impressed many observers, including the Guardian newspaper which, after the final Ashes test, wrote, 'Staring down the barrel of a loss that must have hurt more than any other in his career, Ponting showed what a class act he is.' During the series, he had become Australia's highest test run-scorer. At the end, the crowd at the Oval gave him an extended standing ovation.this insider's account follows the path that led to this increased respect. It had been quite a year ...
Download or read book World Cup Diary written by Glenn McGrath and published by Random House (Australia). This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world's most devastating fast bowlers, Glenn McGrath is the spearhead of the Australian attack. Facing his relentless line and length, few batsmen are equal to his potent mix of speed, control and hostility. Spirited and fiery on the field but mild-mannered and quietly spoken off it, McGrath is one of Australia's most outstanding cricket success stories and is poised to be one of its greatest ever international wicket-takers. A vital part of the triumphant Australian team that swept all opposition aside in their stunning World Cup victory in March 2003, McGrath now shares the secrets of the team's success uaand what they got up to on tour in Africa. The drug scandal that led to Shane Warne's 12-month ban from cricket, the precarious political situation in Zimbabwe, and the drama and humour surrounding Australia's magnificent winning run uaand their off-field antics - are captured in Glenn McGrath's engaging and entertaining tour diary.
Download or read book Never Say Die written by Steve Waugh and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Steve Waugh walked out to bat on 3rd January 2003 in the fifth Ashes Test, he knew his career was on the line. By the penultimate ball of the day, the captain's reputation was fully restored and he was within one stroke of his 100. This is the story of that day, with interviews of Nasser Hussain, Adam Gilchrist and Andrew Denton.
Download or read book Captain s Diary 2006 written by Ricky Ponting and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2006 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting gives an insider's view of his mighty team, describing the issues facing him and his men as they prepare for a rematch of the game's traditional and most intriguing confrontation: The Ashes.
Download or read book Ponting written by Ricky Ponting and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 853 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The number 1 bestseller in paperback. One of the greatest cricketers of all time, Ricky Ponting boasts more records than any other player in Australian history including the most wins as a player and a captain, as well as being Australia's highest run-scorer in test and ODI cricket. From childhood prodigy to the highs and lows of an extraordinary international career, At the Close of Play is the remarkable autobiography of one of the game's greats. But beyond the triumphs and scandals, records and retirement, this is the story of a life lived in cricket and of a life shaped by extraordinary talent and the people who believed in that talent.
Download or read book Ashes Diary 2005 written by Ricky Ponting and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2005 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From triumph in India to heartbreak in The Ashes, the past year has been a time of constant ups and downs for the Australian cricket team. Throughout it all, their captain has documented his thoughts as the team has travelled abroad and stayed at home, faced the thrill of defeating old foes and the anguish of losing a precious trophy, to create this unique, definitive account: Ricky Ponting's Ashes Diary 2005.Beginning with Sri Lanka's Top End tour to Australia in June 2004, the Ashes Diary 2005 takes us through Ponting's stint playing county cricket for Somerset in England, as well as the Videocon Cup and ICC Champions Trophy. Ponting takes us behind the headlines for the Australians victorious Test tour of India, the tours of New Zealand and Pakistan in Australia, the Tsunami match, the VB Series with the West Indies and Pakistan, and the Test and one-day tour of New Zealand that also included the first Twenty20 international.But it was the Australians tour of England in the northern summer of 2005 that caused the most drama, and Ponting does not back down from discussing the failures in form that led to the loss of The Ashes. At the same time he reflects on the dramatic tie in the NatWest Series and victory in the NatWest Challenge, and pays tribute to the efforts of so many great players in his team.Out of this memorable year of cricket comes the ultimate insider's record of what went right, what went wrong, and why the Australian cricket team is still an almighty force to be reckoned with on the world stage.
Download or read book Captain s Diary 2008 written by Ricky Ponting and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Australian cricket team's program for 2007-2008 was as hectic as ever featuring the ICC World Twenty20 and matches against Sri Lanka, India, New Zealand and the West Indies. As well, many of the Australian players were involved in the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League. Yet when the season began, no one could have imagined it would generate the headlines it did. Here Ricky Ponting explains his side of the story."--Back cover.
