Australian captain Ricky Ponting demanded more consistency from his bowlers after his team’s narrow escape in rain-curtailed
Chappell-Hadlee series decider.
Ponting’s frustration could be gauged by the incident when he was heard to yell "what`s going on?" to a sloppy James Hopes over that had helped Martin Guptill and Brendon Diamanti push New Zealand within sight of victory.
"I was a little bit disappointed in some of the boundaries we let in, particularly late in overs," Ponting said. "I felt that we bowled three or four good balls at the start of the over and then just gave them that boundary they needed in the back-end of our overs. And a lot of them weren`t miraculous shots either, they were bad balls.”
"That`s where a lot of my frustration comes, you set fields and want things to be done in a certain way. Sometimes it does and sometimes my emotions boil over. I`ve always been a person that wears my heart on my sleeve and in a must-win game for us it was no different."
New Zealand needed 33 from 36 balls when the rain came to end the match and Ponting held on to the trophy after the 2-2 result. He will be taking a well-deserved rest from Sunday`s Twenty20 in Sydney on Sunday against same opponents after a long summer of discontent that has included Test defeats to India and South Africa and a one-day loss to South Africa.
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