Ricky Ponting the former Australia captain, has been dropped from the ODI squad for the remainder of the triangular series following the worst batting slump of his limited-overs career.
Scores of 2, 1, 6, 2 and 7 have drawn the curtain on Ponting's time as an ODI batsman, despite the fact that he served as stand-in captain for the injured Michael Clarke in the last two of those matches. In a 375-game one-day international career, never before had Ponting made five single-figure scores in a row. John Inverarity, the national selector, said Ponting would be missed, but the time had come to move on in the 50-over format.
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Scores of 2, 1, 6, 2 and 7 have drawn the curtain on Ponting's time as an ODI batsman, despite the fact that he served as stand-in captain for the injured Michael Clarke in the last two of those matches. In a 375-game one-day international career, never before had Ponting made five single-figure scores in a row. John Inverarity, the national selector, said Ponting would be missed, but the time had come to move on in the 50-over format.
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