Date:22/11/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2008/11/22/stories/2008112261161800.htm

Sport - Cricket

Ponting’s pat for Ishant

Melbourne: Australian 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.

“Tall, lean, ultra-impressive Ishant Sharma, playing just his fourth Test, had 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 wrote in his Captain’s Diary 2008. — PTI