Ponting makes that face you all love again!

The Australian side turned up to train this morning at the Feroz Shah Kotla only to find the ground curator - who claimed he did not know they were coming (uh, huh!) - had watered the practice pitches, rendering them completely unusable. This tour of India is already blighted by bad luck in the injury department, and in us just being damned ordinary, so this was really something we could have done without especially as this is the only training day we had before this next match.

What I think is funniest, though, is Ponting - who made on of those faces that everybody loves (even Australians truth be told, although we do occasionally cringe at it):

But better than this was his double sided reaction. Seemingly on his best captainly behaviour, in the article at crapinfo he is reported as saying:

To turn up here and find the wickets completely unusable is disappointing.

... and a veiled accusation (which will be echoed throughout Australia, no doubt):

I am sure by the time the Indian team comes down here, the wickets will be fine. So it's a bit of a disadvantage for us.

His status on facebook, on the other hand, says:

Huge stuff up with our training this morning. Everyone knew we were training at 9am except the ground curator who had the practice wickets under water!

There's the real Ricky we all know and love! Give us that face again, Rick!

There you go ...