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Spin wizard Shane Warne may have ruled out possibility of returning to Australian one-day fold for next year’s World Cricket Cup barring an emergency, but skipper Ricky Ponting remains hopeful about champion leg-spinner’s comeback and asked him to decide fast.

“If every other credible spinner in Australia has broken down and if Ricky Ponting says, `We need you mate, and there’s nobody else’, then I might consider it,” Warne has written in his book ‘Shane Warne, My Illustrated Career’, leaving door open for a late return to the ODI side.

Reacting to Warne’s comments, Ponting said though it is quite late for Warne to announce a comeback but his record makes him very serious contender in the Australian World Cup squad.

He said selectors might be tempted to give Warne a chance even if the leggie decided late. “It’s all up to him. If he wants to make himself available again for selection then I’m sure selectors would think about it.”

However, Ponting said Warne should have made up his mind by now and though optimistic, he knew flamboyant bowler’s return was not all that simple. “It has been floating around for a little while. Whether or not Shane is going to make a return to one-day cricket, I have to think if he was going to do it he would have done it by now,’’ he said.

Source:The News

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