While the cricket media all over the world is all praises for the game spirit shown by the Indians in the 2009 test series between India and Australia, the Australian media is all red over its team. It seems that the whole blame has been of Ricky Ponting. They say that if “he” had shown skills, the situation could have been opposite.

The “Morning Deccan Herald” says that the Australian captain behaved like a newcomer and could not have his team place their feet upon the gross. Other newspapers went to the extent of saying that the team spent 7 days in a sub continent drinking and enjoying so much that they forgot their real intention of going there.

Surprisingly, no other members of the Australian team are being blamed. All fingers are being pointed out at Ponting. The Morning Herald reports that majority of Australian cricket people want the skipper replaced by someone better for the upcoming T20s late this year in Australia. The editorial however says that this is unfair to blame the captain for the loss. He has played in the past and has proved his skills against several strong teams in the world.
The Morning Herald has reportedly said that Ricky Ponting is a very good batsman but a very poor captain. He lacked the skills to motivate the team towards winning the series. Others ask him to remain as a batsman only while leaving the seat of captain for others.

To fight back, Ponting only says that he cannot bend rules to win a game. He says that he followed the ethics of the game and did not bend any rule, though he could have done so in order to win. He is asking the media straight in its eyes, if they expect the captain of a world renowned team to break the rules of a game just to win.

To divert the media attention from the series, Ponting and his close are pointing their fingers at the Australian cricket. They say that they ditched them when the team needed them the most. This is one of the reasons why the team does not have much confidence in the Cricket Board. They said they let off HarBhajan easily during the last session, even when he was found guilty of racial discrimination.

Ponting says he will not leave the matter here and will take it further so that no Cricket Board shows slackness in supporting its team. He blames all the senior cricketers of not supporting the team in the Sydney show. He asks how any team player can continue to have faith in a system that backs up when it comes to provide support to its own team.