Hoggard Finds a Ray of Hope ; but Tourists Rue Letting Ponting Off the Hook

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MATTHEW Hoggard has a typically delicate and scientific method for dealing with England's intractable problem of how to dismiss Ricky Ponting.

'I just close my eyes and wang it down,' said the Yorkshire pace bowler who, after eight days of Ashes combat, has proved the only tourist capable of getting him out.

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Hoggard Finds a Ray of Hope ; but Tourists Rue Letting Ponting Off the Hook

Well, you may as well give anything a try, considering the small detail that Ponting's first three series innings have yielded two centuries and 398 runs at an average of 199.

By the time he was on his way yesterday, he had clawed Australia back into the ...

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