That's irrelevent...Answer me this: even if you assume the lack of runs for the entire 3 years were due to an 'obvious technical flaw' as you put it (which I disagree with frankly), then how could you have been so sure he would have corrected it anyway given the fact he seemingly hadn't in the previous 3 years? Whose to say that he wouldn't have rectified it for another year or two or up until retirement?
This lean streak is getting longer and longer by the day. In 2030 we'll all be saying how Ponting went 15 years without making a run.
Pontings problems weren't always with the front pad/falling over. He had a problem with the short ball, born when Roach cleaned him up. He was scratchy with that for ages, kept getting out to it. Overcame it, but then came the front pad, which lasted a while.
We kept hearing him saying how hard he's working on his game. He wouldn't just go to the nets for a hit, he would be working on his technical problems. I'm pretty sure Ricky Ponting and the Australian coaching staff are more knowledgable on batting than I (and Top_Cat and a few others on here) am so they were always going to work on that. He was always going to improve that.
People on here, you and GingerFurball especially, kept saying how Pontings problem was because he's getting too old, and I clearly said that's horse ****, because his dismissals wasn't him being late on it, it was purely technical. He's an all time great player, so as soon as he resolved his technical problems (which weren't easy, but nor were they particularly hard from my personal experienc) he was always going to score runs again as long as the selectors didn't drop him before he had a chance to rectify them.
As I've said before, if Ponting felt he couldn't over come those problems, he would have retired. I'd take his word over someone like you on an internet forum most days of the week itbt.
