Ponding Ready to share him captaincy

Amidst calls for his arch afterwards the contempo Ashes loss, Australia skipper Ricky Ponting today said he would not apperception administration the captaincy, with his agent Michael Clarke actuality fabricated in-charge of the beneath versions of the game.

"If that's the way that I or others, alfresco of what I'm thinking, adjudge (is) the appropriate way to go, there's actually no acumen why that couldn't happen," Ponting told reporters at the Sydney International Airport.

Ponting is the alone additional Australian captain afterwards Billy Murdoch to alert lose the Ashes in England. The aggregation additionally slipped to fourth abode for the aboriginal time on the ICC Test rankings, accepting absent three of their accomplished bristles series.

Ponting himself was animated to One-day captaincy in 2002 and he aggregate the administration with Steve Waugh until the closing retired from Test candid in 2004. "It has happened in the accomplished with Australian teams. It is accident with added teams about the apple appropriate at the moment."

"Paul Collingwood is captain of the England Twenty20 aggregation and Andrew Strauss is captain of the One-day and Test candid teams. Those things are things that charge to be anticipation continued and adamantine about, but if it agency that I'm activity to be more good off for Test matches and bigger alternation back they appear around," he added.