Ponting expressed his surprise over the heckling he received from the Lord's crowd during the second ashes test. Ponting was continuously booed at the home of cricket after he queried the umpires decision to refer the catch to taken by Andrew Strauss.
Ponting wrote in daily telegraph:
I'm not sure why I was so much the bad guy with the fans," Ponting wrote in the
Daily Telegraph.
Lord's is the one place around England where you don't expect to get heckled. You tend to get a more subdued, cricket-loving crowd and one that's more focused on what's happening in the game.
But I guess any Australian captain is going to cop it over here. Some people have said it's because I'm the last one out of that group of players who had a lot of success
in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Perhaps it's just payback time.
Ponting has more things to worry about than getting booed by the crowd, they need to lift their game if they want to make any impression in the coming tests.
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