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Monday, February 7, 2011

Ponting confident of making World Cup

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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