Quintin Jardine's blog

I am not the biggest Ricky Ponting fan in the world; he doesn’t have the seniority to be a Grumpy Old Man, yet that’s how he’s been behaving recently. Nonetheless, having read some of the stick he’s taking just now in his homeland, I have to say to his critics, that they are a shower of ungrateful whingers. Most of the success your team has had since Warne and McGrath slipped into their dotage and then retired has been down to him. You won’t know what you’ve got till he’s gone.  From what I’ve read, if I was an Aussie I’d want rid of the man Hilditch, pronto. I remember him as a player, he was a notorious hooker and Ian Botham’s face lit up like a Christmas tree whenever he saw him walk out to bat.