Box broke TV, not bat, says Ponting

Australia captain Ricky Ponting, seen here, pronounced it was his box, in use to strengthen a batsman’s many supportive area, as well as not his bat that shop-worn a World Cup sauce room radio set.
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NAGPUR, India (AFP) – Australia captain Ricky Ponting pronounced it was his box, in use to strengthen a batsman’s many supportive area, as well as not his bat that shop-worn a World Cup sauce room radio set.

Ponting supposed an International Cricket Council rebuke after he reacted in a huff to being run out in his team’s 91-run win over Zimbabwe in Ahmedabad upon Monday.

But he insisted upon Thursday that a situation had been blown extravagantly out of proportion.

“Just to clarify, a radio wasn’t strike by me with my bat during all, it was strike by my box that I’d thrown down during a finish of cricket kit,” pronounced Ponting, forward of his team’s strife opposite New Zealand upon Friday.

“I’m not certain where a lot of those stories have come from though we have supposed what a ICC have come up with as distant as a rebuke is endangered from a incident.

“There was a small tiny repairs to a TV set as well as we went as well as reported it to a group physical education instructor true away. They essentially transposed a radio set there as well as then.

“Some of a stories we have been conference a final integrate of days have been a small bit opposite to what a list of events essentially were.

“Hopefully we can put this all at a behind of us as well as begin worrying about a large diversion of cricket. There’s a extent we theory (to how much) we can let off steam in a sauce room. It is a flattering dedicated arrange of place in general cricket.

“But there’s a line we can’t over-step. we accept shortcoming for that happening, notwithstanding by sum collision as well as with no ill will concerned whatsoever.

“What’s happened has happened, I’d similar to to be means to take it behind though we can’t.”

The ICC pronounced Wednesday that Ponting had supposed a assign underneath a formula of control that relates to “abuse of cricket apparatus or clothing, belligerent apparatus or fixtures as well as equipment during an general match”.

They had been contacted by a Indian cricket house following a censure lodged by a Gujarat Cricket Association (GCA) notwithstanding Ponting carrying apologised.