Australian captain Ricky Ponting has dismissed talks of Australia being underprepared for the ICC World T20.
He said that they were in no disadvantage by missing the IPL and that his side was instead "in the best shape" following the break before the big event.
Ponting, along with Michael Clarke and Mike Hussey, deliberately skipped IPL preferring rest ahead of a busy summer for them while players like Andrew Flintoff got injured and have been ruled out of the T20 event. Fitness of Kevin Pietersen is also under the scanner.
"I don't really know the full extent of their injuries and how much cricket they had actually played leading into the IPL. I was only worried about the players in my side and what our workloads had been like," Ponting said.
"With the amount of big tournaments we have coming up it was about making sure we were in the best shape," Ponting was quoted as saying by The Independent.
"There was obviously great incentive with the amount of money that they both (Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen) went for. For us it was a great opportunity to step away from cricket for a few weeks and make sure we were in the best shape we could be in," he added.
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