Like Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting is going to depend on certain key members of the Australian cricket team to keep his run in the ICC Cricket World Cup alive, plausibly for a final time, as epitaphs continue to be written about the Australian captain.
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Ricky Ponting is facing music back home with people not only speculating about his stint as the Australian captain but also, swirling rumours about the possibility of his retirement, may be in the one day format.
Ponting has had to take the heat off the Australian team by taking the onus of the unwarranted spot light on himself, often copping flak for his personal indiscretions as well as the fallibility factor of the team. In that Ponting has had to deal with both, on field and off field agenda, and perhaps he will have to way back into his cricket career to imagine the last time he faced such an intense scrutiny.
Ponting would certain not like to finish the World Cup chapter with more negativity around him than he can manage. For that, Ponting knows that nothing short of a repeat of the success of the previous three editions will take the heat off him. It may not save him the captaincy, and while he is not giving it up by his own design, he would like to make it hard on Cricket Australia to do it as well.
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