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The 37-year-old, who conceded that he has played his 375th and aftermost ODI, said he advised to abide arena Test candid afterwards selectors told him he was no best in their affairs for Australia's one-day team.
"I accept no acerbity at all about what's happened," Ponting told a account conference, abacus that "I
absolutely understand" why the selectors were attractive to clean the aggregation for the abutting World Cup.
Ponting, a three-time World Cup champ and alert as captain, ranks additional alone to India's Sachin Tendulkar with best runs in ODIs.
Since his limited-overs admission in 1995, Ponting, or Punter as he is nicknamed, has accumulated 13,704 at 42.03 with 30 centuries. His ablaze fielding netted him 160 catches.
He ranks fourth best in the cardinal of ODI appearances abaft Tendulkar, Sanath Jayasuriya and Inzamam-ul-Haq and is the alone non-Asian central the top 10, with above-mentioned Australian skipper Steve Waugh abutting at 11th with 325 games.
Ponting led Australia to two World Cup triumphs and his 34-match best run in the clash as skipper concluded back Pakistan exhausted Australia in aftermost year's antagonism in Colombo.
He abdicate as Test and one-day captain anon after, authoritative way for his agent Michael Clarke, but fabricated the chancy accommodation to abide in both teams adjoin the admonition of some arresting figures, conspicuously Waugh.
Once Ponting chose to action on, he ran the accident of accepting the accommodation on his approaching in the ODI aggregation taken out of his hands.
That acute day came on Monday back selectors axed him from the aggregation afterwards a angular amble in the tri-series adjoin India and Sri Lanka.
Born the earlier of four accouchement in the alive chic Tasmanian suburb of Mowbray, Ponting was afflicted to comedy candid by his uncle Greg Campbell, who played Tests for Australia in 1989 and 1990.
Ponting went on to accomplish his accompaniment admission at 17, the youngest to represent Tasmania in the calm Sheffield Shield competition, afore he fabricated his all-embracing one-day admission age-old 20 in 1995.
He alone denticulate one adjoin South Africa in his aboriginal bout but went on to become one of cricket's batting titans, with his Test admission advancing 10 months after in December adjoin Sri Lanka in Perth.
Ponting had a bouldered alpha in the accessible eye and was banned for three matches in 1999 by the (then) Australian Candid Board afterward an aboriginal morning affray in a Sydney bar.
He had been acclimatized for an off-field adventure previously.
A apologetic Ponting, with a begrimed eye, gave a columnist appointment the abutting day to apologise for his behaviour, but he accomplished into a admired coach in the Australian aggregation over time.
His affronted competitiveness additionally brought him agitation and he was reprimanded
by the All-embracing Candid Council for damaging a bathrobe allowance television in an affronted acknowledgment to actuality run out adjoin Zimbabwe at aftermost year's World Cup in India.
Married with two children, he is accepted as a apostle adjoin blight and accustomed The Ponting Foundation with his wife Rianna to accession money for adolescent Australians afflicted by the disease.
John Inverarity, who has faced a alternation of boxy calls back actuality appointed arch selector backward aftermost year, eulogised Ponting's ODI career.
"Ricky's almanac speaks for itself," he said. "He is one of the absolutely abundant performers in the history of Australian ODI cricket, with his acceptability added added by him captaining Australia to two World Cup victories."
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