Anyone who doubted my prognostications below can go beat 'emselves with sandpaper.

I said then that Ponting was washed up, a shadow of his former self and an embarrasment. A greedy, ego driven man whose delusions of grandeur are now Everestian in size. A once great now the ultimate definition of the word "hasbeen".

So what he averaged 100 against the insipid curry munchers? I could make runs against those undisciplined, pampered jerk offs. All this did was make everyone (except me) ruminate... "hey maybe Ricky IS back."

He ain't, he should go now either by his own decision, or as I suspect, kicking and screaming after the tap on the shoulder.

This career is as over as any in sport.