Ponting puts Australia on right path
Ponting is entitled to feel that most of the gaps have been filled. Australia has found its opening pair. A year ago, Shane Watson was a struggling player already with an unreliable body. Now he is a forthright opener and an adaptable seamer able to deliver probing stump-to-stump swingers of the sort that proved so effective at Bellerive.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo