INDIA: CRICKET: Ricky Ponting says Australia have to prepare differently for Twenty20 cricket, as any mistake is magnified
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INDIA: CRICKET: Ricky Ponting says Australia have to prepare differently for Twenty20 cricket, as any mistake is magnified
- Title: INDIA: CRICKET: Ricky Ponting says Australia have to prepare differently for Twenty20 cricket, as any mistake is magnified
- Date: 22nd October 2007
- Summary: MUMBAI, INDIA (OCTOBER 20, 2007) (ANI) RICKY PONTING, AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM CAPTAIN, ARRIVING FOR THE NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) RICKY PONTING, AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM CAPTAIN, SAYING: "This form of the game is where you can't afford to make any slip up like that, any mistake you make can be magnified pretty quickly. As you saw tonight with (Ben) Hilfenhaus getting a wicket with his first ball of his spell off a no ball, got him out next ball too didn't he, caught at deep square leg and he trod on the rope for a six. Little things like that you can't afford to happen in this game. Who knows had we got Gambhir right then it might have been a different game, but we made the mistake and we paid the price tonight." PRESS (SOUNDBITE) (English) RICKY PONTING, AUSTRALIAN CRICKET TEAM CAPTAIN, SAYING: "I think we have to all be aware of that and to make sure that in the next Twenty20 event we go into, we probably train a little bit different, we train for more dynamic sort of stuff that you have to encounter in this game." MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI, INDIAN CRICKET TEAM CAPTAIN, ARRIVING FOR A NEWS CONFERENCE (SOUNDBITE) (English) MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI, INDIAN CRICKET TEAM CAPTAIN, SAYING: "I think they have matured, they are playing sensibly. I think in Twenty20 we are using more head than in the 50 overs game. Yeah, I think they are batting really well, they are aggressive and they are taking calculated risks. But you know now they are successful but at times they will be criticised when they go for a big shot and they get out. But you know stroke-players when they get out, it looks very rash, and you can say it looks like a very bad shot." DHONI LEAVING THE NEWS CONFERENCE
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- Story Text: Australian cricket team captain Ricky Ponting says his side made too many mistakes in their Twenty20 loss to India in Mumbai on Saturday (October 20).
Gautam Gambhir scored a half-century to power India to a seven-wicket victory.
Left-handed opener Gambhir cracked 63 and shared in two useful partnerships to help the hosts and world champions in this form of the game, achieve the target of 167 with 11 balls to spare.
"This form of the game is where you can't afford to make any slip up like that, any mistake you make can be magnified pretty quickly," said Ponting.
"As you saw tonight with (Ben) Hilfenhaus getting a wicket with his first ball of his spell off a no ball, got him out next ball too didn't he, caught at deep square leg and he trod on the rope for a six. Little things like that you can't afford to happen in this game. Who knows had we got Gambhir right then it might have been a different game, but we made the mistake and we paid the price tonight."
Ponting lashed a 53-ball 76 to guide his side to 166 for five after opting to bat on an excellent batting pitch at the Brabourne Stadium.
But the Australian bowlers failed to curtail India, who were playing their first Twenty20 international at home and seemed to be scoring at will.
Gambhir and the exciting Robin Uthappa (35) shared an 82-run second-wicket stand to give the hosts a flying start after opener Virender Sehwag's early exit.
Gambhir, who struck a half-century in the Twenty20 World Cup final against Pakistan, was caught by Ponting while giving pacer Ben Hilfenhaus the charge.
But Yuvraj, who hit paceman Stuart Clark for two consecutive sixes, and skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni (9 not out) guided India to victory with the skipper scoring the winning runs with a six off fast bowler Brett Lee.
Ponting said in future Australia needed to change their game plan in Twenty20 matches.
"I think we have to all be aware of that and to make sure that in the next Twenty20 event we go into, we probably train a little bit different, we train for more dynamic sort of stuff that you have to encounter in this game," he said.
India captain Mahendra Dhoni was pleased with his young team's performance in the shortest form of the game.
"I think in Twenty20 we are using more head than in the 50 overs game. Yeah, I think they are batting really well, they are aggressive and they are taking calculated risks," said Dhoni.
Australia, who lost to surprise winners India in the semi-finals of the Twenty20 World Cup in September, won the one-day series 4-2 earlier this month. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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