Australia captain Ricky Ponting, seen here in Jan 2011, pronounced he was assured he would be fit to fool around in this month’s World Cup notwithstanding a new finger injury.
©AFP/File – Krystle Wright
MELBOURNE (AFP) – Australia captain Ricky Ponting pronounced Monday he was assured he would be fit to fool around in this month’s World Cup notwithstanding a new finger injury.
Ponting, who longed for a final Ashes Test as good as a complete seven-match one-day array opposite England after operation for a damaged small finger, pronounced a damage was mending quickly.
“It’s a lot improved right away than it was final week,” Ponting pronounced during a Allan Border Medal display in Melbourne.
“I’ve been behind in a nets this week, I’ve had 3 great hits, a bit of time out there, so it’s essentially substantially a bit serve modernized than you suspicion it would be.”
Australia go in to a World Cup, to be played in India, Sri Lanka as good as Bangladesh, in poke of a fourth uninterrupted title.
Ponting pronounced he had endured a frustrating month upon a sidelines, though believed a approach a group had achieved in his absence, thrashing England 6-1 in their ODI series, showed they were ready to urge their crown.
“I’m unequivocally unapproachable of a approach a boys have played in a final couple of weeks, Michael (Clarke) led a side good as good as Cameron (White) led a side unequivocally good in Perth as good as you did begin to get a couple of guys behind to full aptness during a right time,” he said.
“We’ve still got a couple of damage worries, though hopefully by a center of this month as good as early Mar we’ll be upon a right lane to winning a World Cup.”
Ponting pronounced it was formidable personification upon a sub-continent, though a Australian squad, which leaves upon Wednesday, had a players who had proven themselves underneath those conditions.
“We go in there with a well-balanced group as distant as girl as good as knowledge is endangered as good as players which have had a little success there in a past,” he said.
The contest starts upon Feb 19.
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