Ricky Ponting's reaction on being dropped:

Oh right, and there's this song Ponting sang too: This is not my swan song

@BoredCricket tweets on Ponting -

"When Ricky Ponting couldn't even score against the Indian bowling esp Vinay Kumar, we knew it was time for him to go" - Aussie selector.

Ricky Ponting: I'm being singled out.  Aussie Selector: with scores like 2,1,6, 2, 7...

Ricky Ponting signs IPL contract, Pune Warriors. #EarlyBoredCall

Captains' Chat - MSD: So, wasup Ricky? Ponting: I've been dropped, mate MSD: Oh, I've been banned, yaar

In the light of Ricky Ponting's axing from the Australian one day squad, India offers to give him a champion's farewell.

Mrs Ricky Ponting confesses: "All I said was let's take it one day at a time, and he went red with rage..."

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Bhajji don't go.

The biggest non-SRT cricket news going is that his chela, Bhajj’s been dropped for the first 2 ODI's against England. He will be missed. In his time away, he will undergo spa treatment, action-change, flight enhancement, tweaking of spinning finger and I-will-not-pitch-the-ball-outside-off-and-see-it-jump-up-short-enough-to-be-played-behind-square-by-Kallis rehab. He will return with a Chautha – an ode to the erstwhile non-spinner he once was – it will be the ball that will return to hand after leaving hand.

He will in all probability also return for the 3^rd ODI. It’ll take one bad over from Rahul Sharma or Ashwin or Kohli, and Bhajji will be back to change-the-game. It’s happened often enough with Ojha, Mishra, and every other spinner whose name you can’t remember. I just hope Bhajji remembers to thank Sachin’s new house for watching over him from the sidelines.

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After being dropped, this is what Yuvraj did:

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