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CRICKET Australia boss James Sutherland has described as "rubbish" claims by Ricky Ponting that Australia's slump is at least partly due to a lack of investment in the national team.
As CA circled the wagons at its annual meeting yesterday chairman Wally Edwards claimed the board had full confidence in Sutherland despite mounting pressure over the team's poor performance.
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"We all want to win the Ashes but we don't think sacking James will help us," Edwards said.
A defiant Sutherland insisted that a fourth successive Ashes series loss would not prompt the sacking of controversial high performance manager Pat Howard.
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Sutherland took aim at Ponting's statement on Wednesday that if the CA board had listened to Australia's most successful captain and coach more often the side would not be in its current malaise.
"I see there's speculation around that we didn't invest in the team, well I've never heard so much rubbish in all my life," Sutherland said.
"The fact of the matter is that we grew from $39 million to $75 million expenditure in the time that Ricky was captain of the team in that high performance elite cricket area.
"That is not the sign of an organisation that is sitting on its hands and not focused on investing in high performance to get improvement.
"You also have to acknowledge the fact that throwing money at something is not necessarily the silver bullet solution either.
"I would be very strong in discounting any suggestion that Cricket Australia was not investing in the Australian team during that period. It's absolute rubbish.
"Ricky wouldn't have had any clear view on what the budget was and what we were spending and what we were doing.
Ricky Ponting and James Sutherland in 2008. Source: News Limited
"It that same period of time, the number of people around the team in team support and team management more than doubled.
"Again that is an indicator that we were not sitting on our hands and not investing into the team.
"Sometimes with players in that area my experience tells me that more is never enough."
Australia has lost three successive Ashes series and failed to win any of its last nine Tests but has never been in better shape off the field.
CA has more money to invest in grass roots cricket following the $500 million television deals earlier this year and more people than ever are watching the game thanks to the Big Bash.
Sutherland claimed he did not recall a conversation with Ponting which the former skipper quoted the chief executive in his book, At the Close of Play, saying "no one spends money when they're going well."
"I can't imagine I would be saying that in the knowledge that at the same time our expenditure around the team was growing," Sutherland said.
He was also annoyed by claims from Ponting that the Centre of Excellence lacked quality coaches saying CA changed the coaches following the sweeping Argus report two years ago.
"We are getting former great players involved all of the programs," Sutherland said.
"All of those things happened, are happening and they're getting better and better all the time.
"I think somewhere along the way there's some crossed wires because that is one of the really significant changes that's happened within the centre of excellence over the past two years and it's getting better and better."
Edwards pointed out that CA had brought Dennis Lillee back into the centre of excellence "after a self-imposed exile."
"There has been a lot of effort put on getting our icons in there," Edwards said.
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