Sixteen months ago he took us to one of our highest placings in the last 40 years.
"It was a fantastic race, " said Adere, who led an Ethiopian sweep of the first four placings.
And the final placings are likely to be decided on Saturday's time trial from Bordeaux to Pauillac.
And as Australia moved in for the kill with aggressive field placings and buoyant body language, England lost their nerve.
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Raikkonen came in second for Lotus ahead of teammate Romain Grosjean in a repeat of the podium placings from last year's race.
The seventh leg placings continue the tussle for the overall lead between Swedish Match with 585 points and EF Language with 689.
The Austrian led the first run and most of the second before hitting a gate and finishing 16th, ending his run of podium placings.
But that should not detract from the performance of Bangladesh, who having shown dash and verve with the bat, were far more purposeful with their field placings and bowling.
Those have been rarer this year, and he has been notoriously kind on his Pirelli tires, which in turn has helped him bag top-three placings in Malaysia, Canada and Italy.
The former Aussie spinner, who is second only to Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan in the list of all-time Test wicket takers, felt bowler Nathan Hauritz was not being helped by Ponting's field placings.
Final placings of 20th, 15th and 18th were followed by last season's blistering start when, under Bobby Williamson, they lost just twice in their first 14 games to climb to second in the league.
The Spaniard lost his crown to Casey Stoner last year but tops this season's standings by 23 points from Honda's Dani Pedrosa with five wins and four second-placings from 10 of the 18 races so far.
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