Crazy will be the right word to describe the international cricket at its current state. In addition to the year round Tests and ODIs, today’s star cricketers are taking up another burden in the form of Twenty-20 . Is this extra ordinary pressure going to take toll on the performances of the cricketers? Aussie skipper Ponting feels it would be difficult at least for his boys to handle all the three formats and do justice to all of them.

Any follower of cricket would admit that international cricket is different from what it used to be in the 80’s or even before the days of T-20. Now hectic is the other word for international cricket that seems to be jam packed with three formats; and currently in the world, you will find few cricketers who can finish their tasks with equal perfection for all the three formats. The Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting is definitely among these handful players who fare equally well in all three types of cricket---Test, ODI and Twenty-20. But even Ponting is of the opinion that playing all three formats and making equally good cricket score for all of them is getting increasingly difficult for his boys.

As it is put by the Aussie skipper, the upcoming cricket season is going to be the busiest for him. In fact it is going to be the busiest in his 13 years of international cricket career, says the captain who recently took part in a big way in the Bushfire fund raising initiatives.

Ponting told the Australian Associated Press (AAP), “International cricket has been difficult for the last couple of years anyway, trying to get the right amount of time between games is something that everybody in cricket has been working on and trying to make better”. But the Australian captain does not seem to be convinced by the Cricket Australia’s rotation policy. Ponting who was rested for the first two ODIs against New Zealand holds that the current rotation policy followed by the board is far from being perfect.

The skipper nevertheless acknowledged that given the maddening schedule of today’s international cricket, the players are in the dire need of breaks from time to time. “The resting policy is something that we need to keep working on and trying to find ways to make the overall policy a little bit better and a little bit tighter,” is what the Australian captain thinks to be an antidote for the wear and tear of the today’s cricketers.

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