Date:22/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/22/stories/2008112256661600.htm

Sport - Cricket

Ishant denied us win: Ponting

Melbourne: Australia cricket captain Ricky Ponting feels his team could have won the crucial third Test at Perth but for an awesome spell by India pacer Ishant Sharma during Australia’s second innings and said he was lucky to be part of a great sporting duel.

“I will always reckon that if I could have got through just one more over in our second innings, then we might still have won,” Ponting wrote in his Captain’s Diary 2008. “Tall, lean, ultra-impressive Ishant Sharma bowled an awesome spell to me: seven overs when he was fast, aggressive and relentless, where I never felt as if I was truly ‘in’,” he said. — PTI