Goodbye RT Ponting 'the ODI player' - you were a legend.

[robelinda]

Also interesting because he didnt say he officially retired from ODI's, he kinda just said he didnt expect to play ODI cricket again.

 

[Jono]

That's the key point. He basically said "I'm not retiring, you just aren't selecting me".

It's Ganguly style, like I thought!

 

[Burgey]

The media just proving what a pack of pricks they are here. Anyone hear that muppet ask him why he called the press conference if he's not retiring? If he'd said nothing they'd be bitching about lack of communication.

 

[Johnners]

 

[Ruckus]

Yeah good outcome that. We really do need him (as long as he is performing) in tests. I hope if he starts failing again in tests though, the selectors won't take too long to pull the plug (or alternatively he steps down).

I found it a bit interesting in that presser though, how Ponting was pretty adamant about how he'll be the one making the decision when the time has come in test cricket...surely these recent events have alerted him to the fact he doesn't have much of a choice in the matter anymore, and he simply just has to perform to stay in the team?

 

[Guido Hatzis]

that awkward moment when you leave a press conference and only one person applauds

 

[Spikey]

The media just proving what a pack of pricks they are here. Anyone hear that muppet ask him why he called the press conference if he's not retiring? If he'd said nothing they'd be bitching about lack of communication.

could have just released a statement tbh

 

[uvelocity]

could be so he can say, "nah ****, I'll be back"

 

[Burgey]

Nah, **** that. Good on him for answering any questions they had for him.

 

[SteveNZ]

The media just proving what a pack of pricks they are here. Anyone hear that muppet ask him why he called the press conference if he's not retiring? If he'd said nothing they'd be bitching about lack of communication.

So basically Ponting has given up his personal time to hold a conference, for the benefit of the media, and this ****wit asks why he's done so?

 

[Riggins]

presser online?

 

[pup11]

The biggest problem amidst all of this is the total lack of vision among the selectors as to what they want to do with this team, if Ponting was so dispensable that a few failures was good enough to pull the plug on his career without even having any real communication with him then you gotta wonder what at all was he doing in the team in the first place.

From where I look at it as long as you are winning games and making the tenure of present selection panel look good you are a fine player, but the moment you are down these guys would kick you regardless of whether you are a legend like Ponting or a young prospective great like Hughes.

Its important to perform but if people like Ponting have to score big runs every alternate innings in order to prove that they are good enough to be in the side then they are better off quiting on their own, instead of having their ability questioned constantly which just destroys the legacy of a player like him and that's why I think he's made a mistake not retiring from test cricket.

 

[benchmark00]

The biggest problem amidst all of this is the total lack of vision among the selectors as to what they want to do with this team, if Ponting was so dispensable that a few failures was good enough to pull the plug on his career without even having any real communication with him then you gotta wonder what at all was he doing in the team in the first place.

From where I look at it as long as you are winning games and making the tenure of present selection panel look good you are a fine player, but the moment you are down these guys would kick you regardless of whether you are a legend like Ponting or a young prospective great like Hughes.

Its important to perform but if people like Ponting have to score big runs every alternate innings in order to prove that they are good enough to be in the side then they are better off quiting on their own, instead of having their ability questioned constantly which just destroys the legacy of a player like him and that's why I think he's made a mistake not retiring from test cricket.

JI said the reason Ponting was in the team was because they wanted to blend some youth and inexperienced players in while he was still in the team. So not sure what you've been reading/watching.

 

[pup11]

The media just proving what a pack of pricks they are here. Anyone hear that muppet ask him why he called the press conference if he's not retiring? If he'd said nothing they'd be bitching about lack of communication.

Why blame the media mate, he's just representing the behaviour or mindset of a large section of the common population who derive some sort of perverse pleasure out of seeing a hero fall onto his knees.

 

[pup11]

JI said the reason Ponting was in the team was because they wanted to blend some youth and inexperienced players in while he was still in the team. So not sure what you've been reading/watching.

So why does he come out and say that Ponting doesn't feature in our scheme of things for 2015 so its time to move on!? Obviously he knew this even before his failures in the CB series but in the all the previous ODI series he was scoring 50's therefore the future of the Australian side was least of Inverarity's concerns at that time.

 

[Spark]

If you actually bothered to read what Inverarity said, everything you've talked about is addressed there.

 

[Spikey]

uh this is Inverarity's first od series

 

[pup11]

uh this is Inverarity's first od series

No, he was in charge for the South African series as well but obviously Ponting was good enough and an 'important' player back then because he was coming of from a good OD series against Sri Lanka.

 

[Prince EWS]

No, he was in charge for the South African series as well but obviously Ponting was good enough and an 'important' player back then because he was coming of from a good OD series against Sri Lanka.

Yeah this recent bias towards performance is downright discriminatory.

 

[Spikey]

No, he was in charge for the South African series as well but obviously Ponting was good enough and an 'important' player back then because he was coming of from a good OD series against Sri Lanka.

uh no

Inverarity will begin his new role after the tour of South Africa, with Hilditch and the interim panel set to continue choosing the teams during that trip. Cricket Australia's attention will now turn to finding two independent part-time selectors to join Inverarity and the captain Michael Clarke on the panel, which will also include the yet-to-be-chosen head coach.

Australia news: John Inverarity named full-time Australian selector | Australia Cricket News | ESPN Cricinfo