Australian captain Ricky Ponting is trying hard to be in shape for the World Cup by taking cortisone injections to ease the inflammation in his spine and avoid a surgery.Ponting said he had three cortisone injections in his spine yesterday as he played throughout most of the summer with a back so sore that he could hardly sleep at night.“It’s been something that has been bothering me a lot through the summer. It started the second day of the Perth Test match, which is a long time ago now (December 15),” he said.“It hasn’t gone away and it’s got worse game by game. It’s just the right time now I think to get it fixed as soon as possible, so I’m not having a lot of sleepless nights through the World Cup as I’ve had through the summer,” he was quoted by Associated Press.
