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Ricky Ponting’s retirement: why England cricket fans should stand up for one of Australia’s finest
The clatter of his leg stump still ringing in his ears, the sight of England’s now tiresome talisman, arms spread-eagled, inked indelibly on his mind, Ricky Ponting left the field at the Oval in 2009. Not to the cat-calling or boos of previous weeks, but to a standing ovation, an English crowd showing respect to […]