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I won't captain Test team, says Ponting

Roar Guru
9th March, 2012
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Ricky Ponting isn’t expecting a return to the Test captaincy if Michael Clarke’s injury problems rule him out of any of the West Indies series.

Ponting replaced Clarke as captain of the one-day side for two matches of the recently completed tri-series with regular vice-captain Shane Watson unavailable.

Clarke’s hamstring injury has ruled him out of the Caribbean one-day series, which takes place before the Tests get underway in Barbados on April 7.

“I stepped away for a reason and I don’t think they’d go back there,” Ponting said after making a hundred for Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield match against Western Australia on Friday.

“Shane Watson’s stepped up and obviously won a one-day final last night.

“I think that’s the way they’d go.

“The only reason I probably captained those one-day games when I did was because Shane was out of the side.

“We’ll wait and see what happens but I would imagine that Pup (Clarke) would be right for the Test matches in the Caribbean anyway.”

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Clarke’s injury is worse than first thought but medical staff are hopeful he will be right for the three-Test series.

Ponting stepped down as skipper of the Test and one-day sides in March last year.

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