Nervous Aussies delay team selection (Perth)

An undecided Ricky Ponting and the selectors postponed the selection of the final 11 until the morning. Ponting said "If you played four quicks and you win the toss and bat and they don't get a chance to bowl on it until halfway through the second day if you bat well, whatever life that was in the pitch is probably gone," Curator Cam Sutherland believes the wicket will be "competitive," with some of the grass to be left on the pitch. 3rd Test, Perth, Dec 2010