da aviator aposta： COLOMBO – Australian captain Ricky Ponting promises Australia won’t takethings easy against Bangladesh in Thursday’s Champions Trophy one-daycricket match here.
da winzada777： Michael Donaldson16-Sep-2002COLOMBO – Australian captain Ricky Ponting promises Australia won’t takethings easy against Bangladesh in Thursday’s Champions Trophy one-daycricket match here.With the near upset by Kenya earlier this month still a strong memory,Ponting said the world champion wouldn’t take too many risks in ashould-win match and would field its strongest team.”We’ll just be focusing on the things that we need to do to get up inthe next game against Bangladesh,” Ponting said.While admitting it would be “nice for us to get another solid hit underour belts before the semifinal” against Sri Lanka on Friday week,Ponting said there would be no repeat of the game against Kenya, whereGlenn McGrath and Jason Gillespie were rested and Matthew Hayden andDamien Martyn were shuffled so far down the order they didn’t get a bat.”We probably won’t do too much differently … but if the opportunitypresents itself during the game then we’ll think about it, if we thinkany guys need a a decent hit or a decent bowl.”Having thumped New Zealand by 164 runs in the opening pool one match,Ponting was asked what sort of a hiding his side could dish toinexperienced Bangladesh.”We’ll just have to wait and see – the next game will be a totallydifferent game,” Ponting said, before reminding people of the near-missagainst Kenya.”We had a very close game against Kenya over in Kenya just a few weeksago but as long as we play somewhere near our best we should do well.”Should Australia progress past Bangladesh, it will have a semifinalagainst Sri Lanka with a potential final looming against either SouthAfrica or India.It would be just the workout Australia would like with next year’s WorldCup in mind.New Zealand on the other hand, plays Bangladesh on Friday before headinghome to lick its wounds after being bundled out of the tournament asdefending champion.New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming asked for his side to be treatedleniently after the Kiwis suffered their biggest loss to Australia andthe second-biggest in their 413 one-day games.”Don’t starting talking about worst performances,” Fleming said.”This time we were outclassed, it was a bad performance but it doesn’tmean we’re a terrible side.”He said the return to the side of injured all-rounder Chris Cairns wouldbe a major boost ahead of the World Cup, as would the return of CraigMcMillan, who missed this tournament for safety reasons.”Chris Cairns is a big player who we were always going to miss,” hesaid.”He’s a quality all-rounder, a world class all-rounder. Missing himalters the balance of the side and takes away a maximum amount ofexperience, and it’s experience which wins big games and bigtournaments.”Still, it was a chance for the other guys to go through aninternational with Australia and they’ll learn some big lessons.”
