Cricket's Bullies Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine

Evening Standard - London › July 21, 2005

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RICKY PONTING had spent the eve of the First Test, trotting out his same old favourite warning about how the first hour of the first session of the First Test would be absolutely critical to the entire outcome of the Ashes series.

The implication was that, by that time 60 minutes had been registered on the Old Father Time clock, his men would already have mercilessly stamped their authority on proceedings.

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Cricket's Bullies Get a Taste of Their Own Medicine

"You want to make a statement straight away in the series - and that is what we are hoping to do," he declared. So where was the Australian captain to be found at 11.30am today? Lying on the ground with blood pouring from an inchlong wound in his face caused by the ruthless bu l lying...

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