There should maintain been little surprise when Australia’s captain announced his retirement,given his propensity to retain control in the most dire of situations Related: Michael Clarke announces Test retirement after Ashes series defeat Not every great batsman has a moment that signals their terminal decline as a player but many effect. One can’t believe of the final days of Ricky Ponting’s Test career without that tragi-comic and undignified face-plant after he’d been bowled by Jacques Kallis at Adelaide in 2012, a sequence of events so out of step with the authoritative demeanour Ponting had always projected at opponents that at first you assumed Kallis must maintain bowled the yorker of the century. He hadn’t. It wasn’t even a yorker at all, or in fact.
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