ADELAIDE: He is an international cricketer who has scored over 10,000 runs in Test cricket and over 11,000 runs in One-Day Internationals, but Australian captain Ricky Ponting failed to get bat to ball against a plucky 10-year-old survivor of Victoria's bushfires on Wednesday.
To the crowd's delight, and with a wry smile, Ponting headed for the sheds as the youngster, Koby, took over batting duties.
"I was actually trying today," news.com.au quoted a grinning Ponting, as saying. Not bad for a boy from Kinglake who had the day off because his school Middle Kinglake Primary was razed in Saturday's inferno.
Ponting's misfortune at the crease was part of a whirlwind visit by Aussie cricketers to the Whittlesea Tennis and Cricket Club Oval which has been transformed into a firefighting staging area and relief centre for those left homeless after the fires that ravaged Kinglake and a string of other small townships in the area. Ponting described meeting families traumatised by Saturday's bushfires as "very moving and very hard".
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To the crowd's delight, and with a wry smile, Ponting headed for the sheds as the youngster, Koby, took over batting duties.
"I was actually trying today," news.com.au quoted a grinning Ponting, as saying. Not bad for a boy from Kinglake who had the day off because his school Middle Kinglake Primary was razed in Saturday's inferno.
Ponting's misfortune at the crease was part of a whirlwind visit by Aussie cricketers to the Whittlesea Tennis and Cricket Club Oval which has been transformed into a firefighting staging area and relief centre for those left homeless after the fires that ravaged Kinglake and a string of other small townships in the area. Ponting described meeting families traumatised by Saturday's bushfires as "very moving and very hard".
http://cricket.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Punter-punched/articleshow/4114984.cms
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