Aussies in good shape

A extensive array win over England was a undiluted credentials for a ICC World Cup, according to Australia captain Ricky Ponting.

Ponting’s side mislaid a Ashes Test array 3-1 upon home soil, though bounced behind to trounce England 6-1 in a successive one-day general contest.

The skipper longed for a ODI matches with a damaged finger, whilst a array of alternative players additionally succumbed to injuries, withdrawal a patrol burned out forward of a 50-over contest upon a subcontinent.

But Ponting insists a fortifying champions have been great rebuilt as they go in poke of an rare fourth uninterrupted World Cup victory.

“Our lead-up couldn’t unequivocally be most better, carrying only knocked about a flattering great English side 6-1 during home with utterly a integrate of of a some-more comparison players not receiving part,” Ponting said.

“We have been in great shape. We’ve got a little unequivocally great certainty as well as a bit of movement around a team. We’ve got a integrate of weeks prior to you need to be personification a comprehensive best.”

Ponting is used to deflecting desperate predictions, with integrate of observers tipping Australia to have an stroke forward of their feat during a 2007 World Cup in a West Indies.

“At a final World Cup, there was a satisfactory bit of negativity about a team, about where you were streamer as a one-day team,” he said.

“We’d mislaid a Commonwealth Bank Series in Australia, went to New Zealand as well as mislaid a array 3-0.”

“You can assimilate which there were a integrate of doubts about a team. And you know what happened there. We went by it undefeated.”

While Ponting concurred which co-hosts India as well as four-time semi-finalists South Africa have been a transparent favourites, he cautioned opposite discounting a chances of a ostensible outsiders.

“India as well as South Africa have been substantially a standout teams,” Ponting said.

“They have been a powerhouses of general cricket.”

“Pakistan as well as New Zealand have been never as well distant divided in ICC events. Sri Lanka, in these conditions, have been as great an ODI side as there is in a game.”