A tribute to Ponting - Overrated and Underrated players in his regime. Analysis on their world cup performance

Dear Punter ,
You have shown the cricketing world what leadership is about.
You made the best of cricketing heads break their heads in attempt to beat your team
You have raised the bar of International cricket by constantly challenging anyone who tagged as "best" and surpassing them.
25000 + international runs and 69 centuries speaks of the run machine inside you.
Your big match innings capability(though it hurt us sometimes personally :) ) speaks of your calibre.

In all, we have witnessed a great leader in you and a great entertainer .
Hope to see you play now with more freedom now and make more runs.

This is just attempt to see which players are over-rated and under-rated in his regime:

Top players overrated - 
1. Mitchell Johnson - rated as the spearhead of Aussie failed to deliver most no.of times .
2. Shaun Tait - He is Mr.Akthar of Aussie squad. Need not explain further.
3. David Hussey - He was expected to do an all-rounder job, with abilties of bowling at death and batting the slog overs - never had a great day at office.
4. Cameron White- Yet another investment wasted - tauted as the future captain and already captianing the T20 format, he is a big let down for ponting. Ponting had the faith that he would replace a "symonds" and it failed .
5. Brad Hodge considered as a future replacement for Ricky Ponting failed to deliver.

The duo of Hussey and White in the lower middle with their inconsistency made Aus team look beatable.

Under Rated players in Ponting's regime :

Ponting was always eager( atleast looked eager from outside) to replace the older with the new squad without letting the new guys get along with the oldies. This made him choose the above with too much "belief" and that killed some careers.

1. stuart clark - he is very naggy bowler to come as first change and whole world knew how dangerous he was except ponting.
2. Nathen Bracken - His economy was 4.x even in the match he has last played. He was getting old , but he was very effective and should have
   been given a little more run.
3. Brad Hogg - Another case of washing hands too fast.
4. Dirk Nannes - wonderful talent hardly recognized in Ponting's times.
4. Symonds - Somehow he should have been groomed better without ego clashes . Captaincy is about management of various individuals. Symonds is a costly miss.


What did they miss in this world cup ?

1. Where is shaun marsh - he has great record against Ind as well as on Indian Pitches .
2. Missing out Bollinger with injury is a real blow.But again he is not recognized well in Aus.
3. James Hopes/Andrew Mc Donald would have been a better all-rounder than Steven smith with their IPL experience in India.
4. Why is Dirk Nannes on bench . The fact is that he is their best bowler in shorter format.

Going forward in future :

1. David Hussey and Cameron white - should shoulder the responsibility at the highest level or invest in someone else.
2. Siddle and Nannes should be in the squad ahead of Tait.
3. Paine is a quality batsman and should be groomed properly.
4. Nauthan Hauritz is still their best pick in spin and should be carried on with.

Hope you all like it.