Ricky Ponting diplomatic over first-ball dismissal

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WICKET TAKEN: Mitchell Johnson high-fives a team-mate as Shanan Stewart heads back to the changing sheds after being dismissed.

FRUSTRATION: Black Caps batsman Martin Guptill shows frustration between overs during his short innings.

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Ricky Ponting has taken his rough call on the chin.

Though gobsmacked to be given out first ball caught off the helmet he said after 592 international innings he has learned to take the good with the bad.

Two days earlier he got a leg before reprieve when a delivery from Daryl Tuffey was splitting middle stump but not given.

"That's the game, isn't it?" the Australian captain said.

"I was answering questions the other night about not being given out so that's the game."

Ponting can't let rip at New Zealand umpire Gary Baxter otherwise he will be lighter in the pocket. But he admitted his decision and another on Adam Voges contributed to their 51-run defeat in the final match of the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy in Wellington.

"The disappointing thing is we probably had a couple in our top four or five that went against us, but that's the game.

"The umpires are out there doing the best they can, as we are as players, so you have to get on with it and fight back into the game as best you can.

"They probably had the rub of the green tonight [Saturday] but that is the way it goes."

New Zealand captain Daniel Vettori has a similar view to his opposite.

He was screaming for Baxter to raise his finger after Shane Bond unleashed a terrific bouncer that Ponting kept his bat and gloves away from and took a glancing blow on the helmet.

"I didn't complain after the last game, so it swings and roundabouts," Vettori said.

"It was a difficult one from where I was, it looked like it could be either or, but I did see the replay," he said with a wry smile.

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Waltraud   #3   04:35 pm Mar 15 2010

I don't care..what comes around goes around. first Punter was out but not given, now he was not out but given. cheecky Hopy, he must be hoarse in the last couple of days:)

bill   #2   04:12 pm Mar 15 2010

oh come on punter ...say nothing

BT   #1   09:03 am Mar 15 2010

It's all swings and roundabouts.

In the second game in the series there were three bad calls that went against the Black Caps, it's likely that had they been called correctly the Black Caps would have won and gone 2-0 up in the series (given that they lost by only 12 runs).

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