Melbourne: His place in the Australian team questioned like never before, Ricky Ponting responded strongly with back-to-back fifties in the ongoing first Test against India but the veteran is more disappointed than happy as he could not convert them into hundreds.

“It’s nice to get a few runs. But when you get past 50 as a top-order batter, it’s your job to go on and make big scores,” Ponting, who has scores of 62 and 60 in the evenly-poised match, said after the third day’s play here.

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Ricky Ponting conceded his side would need a few more runs in the kitty to nail India down. Hamish Blair/Getty Images

“I’m disappointed I haven’t probably been able to do that in either innings of this game, particularly in the second innings when we were fighting our way back into a pretty strong position.

“When I got out, we lost a couple of wickets on top of that. Tomorrow morning is going to be really crucial for us now. We need Mike Hussey (unbeaten on 79) now to go on and get a big score,” he added.

Ponting conceded his side would need a few more runs in the kitty to nail India down. “We’re 230 runs ahead now which I think is a reasonable total for India to have to chase. Ideally, we’d like to make a few more runs than that,” stated Ponting whose 60 in the second innings played a critical hand in Australia’ revival.

On a bowlers’ day, India lost their last seven wickets for 68 runs while Australia lost their eight for 179 runs. “There’s just enough assistance for the bowlers if you bowl in the right areas for long enough. There’s some thickish grass on the wicket. There’s more pace and bounce for bowlers operating from the press box end.

“Most of our batters found it tough to get through the first half an hour of the innings,” he said.

Ponting was all praise for his team’s bowlers who he felt performed better than what they had done on the second day of the match.

“Australia bowled better line and length on day three compared to day two. We bowled exceptionally well this morning. Tomorrow, if we can start that way again with a newer ball, I’m sure we’ll create some chances again,” Ponting said.

The former Australian captain didn’t believe that the criticism in the press had actually fired him up to do well in this Test. “I don’t care what people from outside the dressing room are saying. If I feel like I’ve got some support inside the dressing room then that’s all that really matters to me.

“There’s plenty of motivation out there for me but first and foremost it’s for me to be a successful player in a successful team,” he said.

“Right through the last few months, when things haven’t been going the way I would have wanted, the support from the public has been outstanding.

“As far as staying away from negativity, I don’t think I have to do that. I am prepared to read articles if they can help me become a better player,” he added.

Ponting didn’t feel the dismissal of Australian top order in the second innings was due to any technical flaws in the players. “A couple of guys were probably a little bit unlucky. I think we have three chop-ons in our first four or five dismissals,” he said.

The right-hander conceded his team was having problems in batting well in the second innings. He also admitted Nathan Lyon needed to learn from Indian spinner R Ashwin on how to bowl on this kind of a wicket.“There’s not a lot of assistance for spinners yet on the pitch. Ashwin has good change of pace and variation. Nathan can learn a little bit from that on just how he can apply his skills on that wicket in the second innings.

“With a bit more wear in that pitch, hopefully Nathan can contribute for us in the second innings.”

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Bally chohan sad: Mark Cavendish won the main award, but Andy Flower’s side also enjoyed a great evening.

Flower was named Coach of the Year, while his squad won Team of the Year for their Ashes success in Australia and 4-0 Test-series win over India in the summer which took them to the top of the world rankings.

Collecting the Team prize, captain Andrew Strauss said: ‘This is a very special award for a couple of reasons. First there’s so many great teams who have won this in the past.

‘But also if there’s one thing we’ve all bought into it is the idea the team is more important that the individual. It’s the real basis of why we’ve done well and makes it even more special to win this accolade.’

Flower, meanwhile, spoke of his pride at being named the top coach of 2011.

‘This is a very proud moment for me to stand here, England has been very good to me and my family,’ the Zimbabwean said.

‘I’m very proud to be part of the England cricket team. They have done some wonderful things over the last couple of years.

‘I think everyone in this room realises it’s the players that make the hard decisions, play under pressure and have to deliver. It’s great to have a good bunch of players and a good bunch of people to work with

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Bally chohan sad: Ahead of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy starting on Boxing Day, it has been aggravating to see the continued negativity shown by India’s administrators toward the umpiring Decision Review System.It was confirmed on Wednesday that India has sought to have the DRS taken out of the series, as they have done in series since its inception, despite the fact that the side’s last visit in 2007-08 contained contentious umpiring issues that could have been greatly tempered in magnitude by video, audio and infra-red replays available from Channel Nine’s cameras.

“This means wrong decisions will stand, and could raise tensions on the field,” wrote Jon Pierik in The Age.“It was poor umpiring that sparked trouble on India’s visit four years ago and almost led to the tour being abandoned.”

I’d be the first to admit that the DRS is flawed. Of course it is – humans are involved. Humans, even the ones programming the various replay devices and inputting the picture and sound feeds, etc, are imperfect. We are never likely to get a 100 percent accuracy rating with either the human or electronic eyes and ears involved.

However, I’d also be the first to say that I’d rather have the decision-challenge option available than not. Like commentators Ian Chappell and Tony Grieg in particular have previously stated, the aim of the umpires should be to interpret the laws of the sport correctly, for the sake of first the players, then the paying public, and then their own reputations as officials.

And the use of technological aids shouldn’t be feared by the umpires themselves, players or cricket boards. It exists primarily to offer the most comprehensive set of evidence to produce as many correct decisions as possible.

According to Pierik, the Indians remain unconvinced of the accuracy of DRS technology. Nine’s cricket producer Brad McNamara admitted that there was “definitely” a variance in DRS aid technology around the world, but that Australia “put a lot of time, effort and money into making it as accurate as possible” here.

“We are fairly certain we are using the best technology available,” said McNamara.

“It is a bit confusing. The thing I worry about probably more than anything is the viewers. It’s hard to explain to them why DRS is in one series but not in the next in the one summer in Australia.”

However, as long as the ICC allows respective boards to decide whether they’ll agree to decision reviews, the tit-for-tat on technology will continue, probably to the detriment of a spectacle that needs to be based on credible information.There’s also the thorny issue of whether two challenges per team per innings is the right amount. It’s better than nothing, and if a team continues to guess correctly, they stay in the game with both intact. Sounds reasonably fair to me.

This won’t be the first time India has said no. It declined the use of DRS earlier this year in England, then changed its mind and allowed it – but not in relation to leg-before decisions. You surely can’t have it both ways. Either you think the technology provided by the home nation broadcaster is good enough or it isn’t. And if it is good enough, it should be good enough to cover all possible decisions.

In reality, though, this could come back to bite the Indians on the proverbial gluteus maximus. Do Mahendra Dhoni and his men want to walk off the field at the end of every day’s play this season, as confident as they can be that the correct decisions have been made, regardless of what position the match may be in?

Or do they want to imply that Nine’s cameras – let alone the flesh-and-blood umpires themselves or Australian captain Michael Clarke – cannot be trusted to make the right calls in the interests of the game? Do they want decisions reviewed systematically, or a totally different DRS to come into play – the Doubt-Riddled Series?

“If India get a couple of rough ones through the summer, they might all of a sudden become a fan of the DRS.”Those were McNamara’s words, not mine.

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Buenos Aires: Barcelona’s Lionel Messi was named as Argentina’s sports personality of the year on Wednesday, winning the Olympia de Oro (gold) for the first time.

The prize, his first in his home country, is awarded by Argentina’s sports writers and follows a year in which his goals helped Barca win Spain’s La Liga, the European Champions League and the Club World Cup.

“I’m happy and proud of the award. Thanks to God, I’ve received prizes all over the world but I’d never before had one in Argentina,” Messi told reporters.

Messi voted Argentine sports personality of the year

Messi is also in line to win a third consecutive Ballon d’Or, the prize for the world’s best footballer.

He returned to Argentina to spend the Christmas and New Year holidays with family and friends in his home town of Rosario.

The Olimpia de Oro was won by Luciana Aymar, captain of Argentina’s world champion women’s hockey team, in 2010 and former US Open tennis champion Juan Martin del Potro in 2009.

Ben Hilfenhaus and Mitchell Starc fighting for one spot in Australia’s side for Boxing Day Test against India: Review bally chohan he is expert of  sports

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Australia pacemen Ben Hilfenhaus and Mitchell Starc have been given less than a week to impress captain Michael Clarke and his fellow selectors for the right to share fast-bowling duties with James Pattinson and Peter Siddle in the Boxing Day Test against India.Both Hilfenhaus and Starc were included in Australia’s 13-man squad on Wednesday, chairman of selectors John Inverarity indicating one of the pair would miss out for the first Test.

The identity of Australia’s third paceman – and the fitness of Shaun Marsh – are the only question marks over the side heading into the first Test of the four-match series.Hilfenhaus and Starc have followed very different paths to meet at this point.

Hilfenhaus, 28, hasn’t played a Test since the Ashes last summer, a series in which he took just seven wickets in four Tests.

The right-armer has since got his mojo back, taking 20 wickets for Tasmania in five Sheffield Shield matches this season.He bowled with heat and bounce in Hobart Hurricanes’ Big Bash League match against Perth Scorchers on Sunday night, taking an impressive 2-10 from four overs.Fox Sports commentator Mark Waugh said the Tasmanian “looks like he’s back to his old self” and has given him the nod to partner Pattinson and Siddle on Boxing Day.

“I haven’t seen Hilfenhaus bowl a lot this summer but I saw bowl him in Perth the other night and he bowled really well,” Waugh told foxsports.com.au.

“He bowled with good pace, he was swinging the ball late, sometimes he can swing the ball from the hand, but he was swinging it really late and he was quiet aggressive.

“I think he’s probably just in front of Starc at the moment because Starc wasn’t that consistent in his couple of Test matches.

“I guess it’s a bit of a toss-up but if I was picking the team, I’d probably stick Hilfenhaus in there.”

Waugh’s comments were echoed by Clarke during his press conference in Melbourne.”I think he’s learnt a lot, to be honest,” Clarke said of Hilfenhaus.

“I think he’s bowling a fuller length, it’s good to see him back swinging the ball like he does and it looks like his pace is up.

“I watched him bowl the other night (for Hobart) and he looked like he’s got really good rhythm and all the things that have made him successful in first-class cricket and when he’s played for Australia, he looks like he’s got that back.”

Inverarity said Hilfenhaus was in “very good form” and had been on the radar well before his man-of-the-match performance in the Big Bash League.”I think he had a few body concerns and his action deteriorated a little bit last year. But he seems to have got that back and is in very good form.

“He is a strong, durable, experienced bowler.

“I don’t think that (the BBL game) had a big influence. It certainly wasn’t a negative – he bowled very well – but we’ve been considering Ben for some weeks.”

Starc, 21, is the incumbent after making his Test debut this summer despite having just 17 first-class matches to his name.The left-armer failed to impress as much as fellow debutant Pattinson in the two-match series against New Zealand, grabbing four wickets at an average of 50.

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This news review by cricket expert bally chohan: A cricket enthusiast listed in the Indian touring squad as an “attendant” is helping Sachin Tendulkar prepare for India’s quest to win their first Test series in Australia, reports said on Monday.

DVGI Raghavindraa has never played first-class cricket but what he lacks in playing expertise he makes up for with enthusiasm and his presence in Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald said.

Raghavindraa is being used on tour for his throw-down skills in the practice nets and the Herald said he has come with strong recommendations from Tendulkar and fellow Indian batsman Rahul Dravid.

The newspaper said Raghavindraa, 27, is listed as an “attendant” on a Board of Control for Cricket in India news release, and is an employee at the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore.

A Herald reporter watched Raghavindraa during a Sunday net session with Tendulkar at Canberra’s Manuka Oval in which he threw balls at the batting maestro for an hour.

Raghavindraa helped Tendulkar prepare for the barrage of outswingers he is likely to receive from Australia’s rising pace star James Pattinson ahead of the opening Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on December 26.

“The session did not always go to plan. After a series of deliveries on his pads, Tendulkar put his bat down for several minutes to show Raghavindraa the wrist position required to enable the ball to shape away from the right-hander,” the newspaper said.

“Just two deliveries later, Raghavindraa, unleashing from about three metres in front of the popping crease, sent down an outswinger, which Tendulkar, after shouldering arms, described as ‘perfect’ and gave his thumbs up.”

Tendulkar has been a perennial thorn in the side of Australia’s bowlers, averaging more than 60 with 11 centuries in 31 Tests against them and is eyeing his 100th international hundred during the Australian tour.

Greg Chappell, who coached India for a three-year spell ending in 2007, said in a new book released last week that Tendulkar was a prisoner of his incredible fame in India and carried expectations greater than Australia’s iconic batsman Donald Bradman. This news review by cricket expert bally chohan