Having taken a 2-0 lead in the One-day series against India, Australian captain
Ricky Ponting today warned his teammates to guard against complacency and
said it was important to keep the heat on the home team.
Ponting said the lead taken by his team would be "pretty handy" and
it was important to keep the momentum going in the remaining four matches.
"We started the series the way we wanted to. It is pretty
important that we do not sit back and rest on that but we look in to the future
of the series," Ponting told reporters after Australia defeated
India by 47 runs.
"The lead that we have taken will be pretty handy for us to prove ourselves
in the remaining matches. I am happy at the way we have come so far and we have
to take it from here," he said.
He said stitching big partnerships was the key to his team's success and lavished
praise on the hard-hitting Andrew Symonds for his rollicking knock of
89.
"We came up with good partnerships with Andrew Symonds
sticking on to the wicket. Mitchell Johnson has been consistent in wicket-taking
abilities in the earlier matches.
"These are the indications to our success so far. We need to do some fine
tuning in some areas but generally I am happy about the performances of my players,"
he said.
Asked whether he felt India could snatch a victory when Sachin Tendulkar
and Yuvraj Singh were batting, Ponting said, "Indian
batsmen were generally behind the required run rate most of the day. What kept
them down was that we took couple of wickets in the game.
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