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Ricky Ponting, the most successful former skipper of Team http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746, is likely to skip the first slip fielding position during his team's upcoming tour to Sri Lanka, for the first time in the last nine years, due to his troubling finger.
The Aussies are set to play a bilateral series of 3 Tests, 2 T20Is and 5 ODIs against the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 this month. The opening match of the series will be held on August 6.
Ponting, who broke his little finger while fielding in the last Ashes series, has undergone two surgical operations and many other external treatments, but he still feels pain and does not want to aggravate it by stressing it at the first slip.
Ponting has been retaining this fielding positing in Test matches since 2002. He took it over from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mark-Edward-Waugh-c74603.
Some analysts think that giving up this long-held position can be the last nail in the coffin for Ponting, who is in the twilight of his International career and has already discarded the team captaincy.
Having failed to defend the 4-time World Champion title of the Kangaroos in the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978 replaced him.
Talking to the media here today, Ponting said, “Maybe down the track [I will field in the slips again]. It's going to be a confidence thing for me as well, I need to know that I can move quickly for balls low to my left and not worry about copping a nasty
one on the end of the finger again.”
He further told, “I won't start there in the one dayers we've got coming up, but if I'm confident and I'm not getting any pain in the finger, and the captain thinks I'm one of the best slip fielders we've got, then I could be back in there one day.”
The 36-year-old right handed batsman has played 152 Tests, 362 ODIs and 17 T20Is so far. He has lifted the most prestigious World Cup Trophy two times consecutively, as captain.
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