Riky Ponting stirs controversy

Ricky Ponting clearly doesn't think he is getting enough headlines by being the best batsman in the world, so he has had to make a few more. First of all he has had his bat banned by the MCC (who still make the laws of the game) and secondly (as Karl has already pointed out) he has decided to call for Bangladesh to be drop-kicked out of the test arena.

Intriguingly while Ponting's comments would appear to breach Cricket Australia rules, he has not been punished. Also intriguingly the Board has issued a statement in which it quotes Ponting as saying:

"If it takes teams like Australia playing teams like Bangladesh for the developing Test nations to improve their skills, then I'm all for it. I'm looking forward to the challenge of leading Australia in Bangladesh."