Ricky Ponting with the Australian cricket team in India in 2008–09 his "worst day as national captain". Indian newspapers also continued with the criticism, with some suggesting Ponting put himself before the team. Ponting angrily responded to such comments at the post-Test media conference. Ricky Ponting with the Australian cricket team in India in 2008–09 Ricky Ponting captained the Australian cricket team on their four Test tour of India in 2008–09. On a tour that was unsuccessful on a whole, the tourists lost the Test series 2–0 to an Indian side led by Anil Kumble and Mahendra Singh Dhoni, while they drew two warm-up matches against the Centre of Excellence (non
Australian cricket team in New Zealand in 1945–46 seven debutants for the Test, many of whom would go on to play large roles for the national side in later tours, including during the 1948 "Invincibles" tour. The match was also Bill O'Reilly's last at Test level. Australian cricket team in New Zealand in 1945–46 The Australian national cricket team toured New Zealand in March 1946, playing a single Test match against New Zealand's national team. The Australians opened the tour with first-class matches against the four Plunket Shield teams, winning all by large margins, three of them by an innings. The Test, played at the Basin Reserve, Wellington,