Loose shot halts Ricky Ponting’s run at Allan Border’s record

RICKY Ponting’s inevitable surge towards history was suddenly halted when he played a rare false shot and had his stumps shattered by England spinner Monty Panesar. Ponting (150) was charging towards Allan Border’s Australian record of 11,174 Test runs but fell 65 runs short of claiming it when he chopped a Panesar delivery back onto his stumps. It was a strange and somewhat soft dismissal for the Test skipper who…

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