"I don’t think that was required," Australian skipper Ricky Ponting said. "He had changed his gloves the over before and his glove is not going to be too sweaty in one over.”
Former Australian captain Ian Chappell said: “I don’t think any team should complain about the tactics. It is best left to the umpires to handle such situations and the umpires were not strong enough to deal with the situation in Cardiff.”
“Warne and McGrath have retired and they are not going to come back. It is irrelevant now to think of what they could have done. The others have to be good enough to step up.
All teams lose good players at some point of time and they have to recover.”
“Well, it is not easy to get rid of Ponting. If you want to get rid of him, you have to look at who is better than him.
As far as the current Australian team is concerned, no one is better than Ponting and it is not easy to replace him.”
“The kind of shot Pietersen played in the first innings was ridiculous. He has got to work out for himself what kind of shot he wants to play.”