Ponting smashes LCD in Australian dressing room

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Ponting smashes LCD in Australian dressing room

AHMEDABAD: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting smashed a LCD television set in the team's dressing room, apparently in a fit of anger, after he got run out against Zimbabwe, sources in the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) said on Tuesday.

The incident took place immediately after Ponting was run out on 28 by a direct hit from Chris Mpofu in the Group A clash between Australia and Zimbabwe.

GCA said that they had informed the Australian cricket authorities about the incident

But when the Australian media manager Lachy Patterson was contacted, he said he was not aware of any such incident.

GCA officials said that they would be holding a meeting on Tuesday to decide on further action in this regard.

Read more: Ponting smashes LCD in Australian dressing room - The Times of India Ponting smashes LCD in Australian dressing room - The Times of India

 

[GUNS-N- ROSES]

can some one smash his head with a bouncer. he is one arrogant person.

 

[notsuperstitious]

Ponting smashes LCD in Australian dressing room

AHMEDABAD: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting smashed a LCD television set in the team's dressing room, apparently in a fit of anger, after he got run out against Zimbabwe, sources in the Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) said on Tuesday.

The incident took place immediately after Ponting was run out on 28 by a direct hit from Chris Mpofu in the Group A clash between Australia and Zimbabwe.

GCA said that they had informed the Australian cricket authorities about the incident

But when the Australian media manager Lachy Patterson was contacted, he said he was not aware of any such incident.

GCA officials said that they would be holding a meeting on Tuesday to decide on further action in this regard.

Read more: Ponting smashes LCD in Australian dressing room - The Times of India Ponting smashes LCD in Australian dressing room - The Times of India

Ponting has got away with too many things in his career. So many times he's been seen arguing with umpires, but hardly any action taken against him.

The whiner needs to be disciplied.

 

[Roybot]

Ponting has become a cranky old man, he needs to step down.

 

[takeiteasy]

 

[GUNS-N- ROSES]

i wonder, what wd have been the reaction of AUS public if an india had done this in australia. we sometimes become too soft. its high time some hard action is taken against this arrogant individual. he is hardly a role model as captain.

 

[PoKeMon]

i wonder, what wd have been the reaction of AUS public if an india had done this in australia. we sometimes become too soft. its high time some hard action is taken against this arrogant individual. he is hardly a role model as captain.

How about banning him for whole world cup

 

[GUNS-N- ROSES]

How about banning him for whole world cup

well i wd agree on that front.

 

[KS]

Get the cost of the LCD from Cricket Australia.

I guess they were the same team whining about some non-payment during the CWG.

Such bad loosers.

 

[GUNS-N- ROSES]

Do the aussies celebrate happiness(read victory) and sorrow (read run out) in the same way, i.e. by breaking things.

some months ago, they threw a washing machine from window to celebrate their happiness and now this. thak god i m not australian else my mum wd kick me out.

 

[hembo]

Petulant Ponting facing cup ban Jesse Hogan, Nagpur
February 24, 2011

A PETULANT reaction to being run out has put Ricky Ponting in danger of being banned for two of Australia's World Cup matches.

Ponting was last night expected to be formally notified of an International Cricket Council disciplinary charge against him for an incident in which he accidentally damaged a dressing-room TV during Australia's opening match against Zimbabwe on Monday.

The Gujarat Cricket Association, which operates the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, made the complaint to the ICC late on Tuesday, via the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

Advertisement: Story continues below It was expected Ponting would have been cited under section 2.1.2 of the ICC Code of Conduct for players, which relates to ''abuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground equipment or fixtures and fittings during an international match''.

The Australian team's vehement insistence that the damage to the TV was accidental, and not as extensive as reported in India, is not necessarily enough to absolve Ponting because the charge also applies to any act which ''negligently results in damage to the advertising boards, boundary fences, dressing-room doors, mirrors, windows and other fixtures and fittings''.

That specific charge is determined to be a level-one offence, the most minor, although it could still result in a suspension for Ponting because of his blemished disciplinary record. During the past Boxing Day Test Ponting was fined 40 per cent of his match fee for a prolonged argument with umpire Aleem Dar over a failed appeal against England's Kevin Pietersen.

Being adjudged guilty of a second level-one offence within a year would result in ''the imposition of a fine of between 50 per cent and 100 per cent of the applicable match fee and/or two suspension points''. While the latter would be extremely unlikely, if imposed by the Australia-Zimbabwe match referee Roshan Manhanama it would force Ponting out of two one-day internationals.

After being run out by a superb direct hit from Zimbabwe bowler Chris Mpofu a frustrated Ponting threw his groin protector at his kit bag on his return to the dressing-room. It reportedly ricocheted off a hard item at the top of the bag and struck the side of a flat-screen TV that was sitting on a shallow table beside Ponting's bag.

The captain immediately notified team manager Steve Bernard who notified a Gujarat Cricket Association official about the incident and the apparent effect it had on picture quality in one corner of the screen. He also pledged to pay for any necessary repair costs.

Furthermore, association secretary Rajesh Patel was quoted yesterday by The Hindustan Times as saying that although the TV suffered some internal damage they would ''not lodge a complaint because we don't think it is that serious''.

Indian media has called for tough sanctions against Ponting for, apparently, smashing the TV with his cricket bat despite the Gujarat Cricket Association saying it was not smashed.

 

[Super Falcon]

his time is near and all his good time is over now now his time came of evil and good to see this becoz he had too much sucess he have no respect to other teams and umpires i hate this man hope akhter smashes his head once it for all