Australia's successful captain (not Mr Cricket) has elevated the art of post match spin doctoring to new heights following his sides rather dull win against Zimbabwe in the latest world cup warm up from the West Indies.
Pontnocchio tells us that he's really happy that his struggling one day attack didn't bowl out Zimbabwe on Tuesday because they got a better work out than England. I'm sorry? Old Papa Bucchano was telling us only a month or so ago that his bowlers needed to be challenged. Much of a challenge is it presented by Zim? So a work out consists of bowling for a long time does it? Isn't that what nets are for?
Wickman can't work this out. They bowl 50 overs at one of the World Cup's least fancied line-ups (who hasn't hammered them recently), fail to take all ten and Pontnocchio reckons that's a good work out. No. Wickman will take rattling up 280 odd and smashing a bad side (including Outerbridge) into the dust any day. All this has done is prove that the Australian attack can no longer take 10 wickets, even against the least competent batting line-ups.
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