Ricky Ponting pleased with 2-0 series victory over West Indies in the 3rd Test said they remained a team that knows how to win after the retirements of Shane Warne Glenn McGrath Justin Langer and Adam Gilchrist who had helped Australia dominate world cricket for more than a decade led some to question whether Ponting side would be able to stay at the top of the sport. I am really happy. Everyone been talking about this transition phase that our teams been going through Ponting told reporters. It is right we are going through that sort of transition we have lost 6 or seven players in the last 12 months but we are still beating teams. We are still winning test matches and winning series. We are probably not demolishing sides like we might have two years ago but we are grinding teams down and winning test matches and we`re doing it well that is a really pleasing thing for me and the rest of the guys going forward. Ponting said Australia domestic competition ensured players reached the Test side with the right mentality. I think it is pretty good in our state system. I think a lot of the guys come into international cricket knowing a certain way to play their cricket you couldn`t ask for a better start for wicketkeeper Brad Haddin and new spinner Beau Casson and even Simon Katich coming back in the side. I am really happy with where we are at at the moment. The Tasmanian singled out Katich who scored centuries in the second and third test pace bowler Stuart Clark, who bowled consistently and took crucial wickets as well as allrounder Andrew Symonds had all shown improvement in this series. Ponting whose team now face West Indies in a Twenty20 game on Friday at the Kensington Oval before a series of five one day internationals said that he personally was enjoying being part of a new dressing room. I actually said when some of the more senior guys moved on that it was going to be one of the more exciting periods in my career to have some new fresher faces around the team. I enjoy having some guys who have made their debuts and some guys who have played just a handful of Tests in the side because I feel I have got a lot that I can offer to those guys. It is a different time for the team you go in the changing room and you look at the team and it is a bit different to four years ago but we are winning games and that is something I am really happy about.
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