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Article: Vic: Hookes funeral part of healing process, Bracks
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- AAP General News (Australia)
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- January 27, 2004
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AAP General News (Australia)
01-27-2004
Vic: Hookes funeral part of healing process, Bracks
ADELAIDE, Jan 27 AAP - Australian captain Ricky Ponting said his team was looking
forward to the opportunity to pay its last respects to former Test player David Hookes
at his funeral at Adelaide Oval today.
Ponting said the players had tried to honour Hookes as a team during their past two
one-day matches and would do so again today.
"We've been as respectful and paid as many respects as we can over the last few games
and (today) is probably going to be the last day of that," Ponting said.
"We're coming here again as a full team to pay our respects once again and I must admit
a lot of the guys ...