Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/adamgil/public_html/articles/main.php on line 40
Warning: include(http://www.adamgilchrist.net/lastupdate.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/adamgil/public_html/articles/main.php on line 40
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.adamgilchrist.net/lastupdate.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/adamgil/public_html/articles/main.php on line 40
Adam
Multimedia
The FanZone
Site Stuff
Contact
All original content on this site is © 2004 - 2006 CAITE Inc. All borrowed images and articles remain copyrighted to their owners and no claim of ownership is made.
Warning: include() [function.include]: URL file-access is disabled in the server configuration in /home/adamgil/public_html/articles/main.php on line 102
Warning: include(http://www.adamgilchrist.net/action.php) [function.include]: failed to open stream: no suitable wrapper could be found in /home/adamgil/public_html/articles/main.php on line 102
Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'http://www.adamgilchrist.net/action.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/adamgil/public_html/articles/main.php on line 102
Site Affiliates
Cricket Fanlists
Ponting in control, says Gilly
Source: The Courier-Mail - November 8, 2005
AUSTRALIA'S Ashes loss has made Ricky Ponting a better captain with a "much more steely resolve", according to vice-captain Adam Gilchrist.
Ponting returned from the Ashes under fire from critics who claim he was captaining too much by committee and trying to please everyone.
But Gilchrist said there was a fresh post-Ashes firmness about Ponting, who clearly is backing his own judgment more.
"Since the Ashes, Rick has come home and thought right, he is going to do things his way," Gilchrist said.
"That's not a major regime change but I think he saw the criticisms when he came home and he thought 'I am going to do it my way so if there is criticism I have least done totally my way'.
"Not that he wasn't mainly doing it that way before, but there was a lot of contributing factors. He has a more steely resolve now. He is going to be much better for that experience over there as we all will in the long run. He has a wonderful cricket mind and I have never questioned his leadership."
Steve Waugh had urged Ponting to back his own gut instincts more, confessing he made the same decision himself as he lay in a hospital bed in Sri Lanka after colliding with Jason Gillespie in 1999.
Waugh felt that if his career ended then he would not have done himself justice as a captain because he was listening to too many voices apart from his own.
So he promised himself he would do things his way.
Ponting seems to have made the same decision.
He gave Brett Lee a no-nonsense directive to bowl fast in the Test and bluntly told him he thought his new plan to become a line-and-length bowler was flawed.
Gilchrist liked the look of Lee at the Gabba. The team is hoping his five-wicket second innings haul will prove the turning point of his career. "He was certainly back to his near best - his most venomous . . . bowling fast and aggressive," Gilchrist said.
- ROBERT CRADDOCK