Ponting believes standards in one-day cricket are being compromised by the involvement of lesser teams in major competitions.
This is an athlete who has won gold in the last three major international competitions she has taken part in - last winter's World Indoors, the 2002 European Championships and the Commonwealth Games the same year.
The club is also still alive in the two other major competitions it entered this season.
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He has proved over a long period his ability to build teams that challenged for, and have been successful in, major domestic and European competitions.
The stadium - built with Millennium funding to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup - is fast emerging as the leading venue for all major footballing competitions in the UK, following the demise of Wembley.
"In the past it was all about getting to these major competitions, " Marley told BBC Radio Merseyside.
Bolt has now won seven out of eight of the major athletics competitions, only missing out on a World Championship 100m title in South Korea due to a false start.
It found that only one-in-five employees are distracted at work by the inherent excitement that forms from watching major sports competitions.
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The Co-operative Insurance company apply their name to the League Cup for the last time this Sabbath, and in the wake of the Old Firm final, Scottish football will have two of its three major competitions without financial backers.
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