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    "editor1": "<p><strong>Sydney, April 1:&nbsp;<\/strong>&nbsp;Ricky Ponting is among Australia&#39;s greatest ever batsmen across formats. Additionally, he also came to be known for being the face of Australia&#39;s uncompromising attitude of winning at all costs in the years that he led a team that lost only a handful of matches across formats.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Signs of this aspect of Ponting&#39;s character could be seen before he took over the captaincy from Steve Waugh and an example of that was Australia&#39;s 2002 Test against South Africa. Ponting on Wednesday gave his followers a recap of the moment of when he won the match and reached a second innings hundred with a six off South African spinner Paul Adams.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Ponting retweeted a post which showed the last ball of the Test and said: &quot;I think this was as excited as I&#39;d been on the field ... and I couldn&#39;t have asked for a better ball to hit for six. Thanks Paul.&quot;<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Australia needed 331 to win and looked to be in good stead while the top three of Justin Langer, Matthew Hayden and Ponting added 201 runs. However, Australia suffered a middle-order collapse as Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh and Damien Martyn all fell within the space of 10 overs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>First innings centurion Adam Gilchrist played a typically aggressive cameo to counter the South Africans before Shane Warne stuck on with Ponting as the latter finished the job.<\/p>\r\n",
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