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Ponting out of third Test too

AFP, Sydney
Australian cricket captain Ricky Ponting said he had been ruled out of the third Test against India Thursday after doctors told the batsman his fractured thumb needed more time to heal.
Ponting said the injury had left him unable to make the third Test in Nagpur starting on October 26 but he hoped to be fit for the fourth and final Test in Bombay early next month.
"Naturally I'm pretty disappointed not to be ready," said Ponting, who has already missed the first Test win in Bangalore and the second Test, which began in Madras Thursday.
"The thumb is certainly healing, but there is no strength in it, and the medical advice is that I would be a one-in-a-hundred chance of being right for the third Test," he told reporters here.
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Cricket Australia medical adviser Trefor James said a specialist's examination showed the bone in Ponting's broken thumb was knitting well.
"But while he is progressing well, his thumb is not yet strong enough to grip a bat," he said.
Ponting fractured his left thumb while fielding during Australia's six-wicket loss to England in the ICC Champions Trophy semifinal at Edgbaston.
Ponting's unavailability presents batting rivals Michael Clarke and Darren Lehmann with more time to state their cases for retention in the third Test team.
"There is going to be an unlucky batsman when I eventually come back, and we don't know which one it is yet," Ponting said here after meeting with specialists.
He said he was not certain if he would be padding up for the Bombay Test.
"All going to plan I should be right to play the fourth Test match, but I still don't have a departure date and we won't know until we have some further x-rays done," he said.
Ponting said Lehmann's reported comments Tuesday that he was prepared to step down for Clarke came out a little early.
"That was what was mystifying about what Darren said, there was no certainty that I was going to be back so he has made his statements about a week and a half too early," he said.
"As far as I am concerned Darren Lehmann has got a helluva lot of Test cricket to play yet," Ponting said.
"And all he was trying to say is that he would understand if selectors left him out for Michael Clarke."