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Ricky Ponting has said that he has no difficulty in moving down the order as long as he is part of the playing XI.
Australia shuffled its batting order to press in Marsh at the number three place, which means former captain Ponting, his descendant Clarke and Michael Hussey had to slip down one spot each.
"It was a long-term plan of Michael's to have Shaun move to No 3 and me shift to No 4 and Michael move to five and Huss (Hussey) to six," Ponting said.
"So that wasn't just amazing I don't think as a one-off for that game. Michael sees that in the best welfare of the team going onward for a period of time. So I'll be three this week, almost positively three in the one-dayers in South Africa and then probably drop back to four for the Test matches," he added.
Ponting also said that playing at number four spot would give him some more time to think on how to go about his batting.
"When I first came into the Australian side, batting at six was hard. Waiting that amount of time to bat for me was something that was very foreign to me.
"But three to four I don't think is as big a change as three to six, or it surely wasn't in the last Test because I was in pretty early both times. Slight adjustment. It just gives me a little bit more time once our fielding's over to get my head approximately what I have to do to bat," Ponting said.
Clarke had previous made it clear that Shane Watson will not be moving down the order from his original opening slot.
Ponting, meanwhile, urge that while Cricket Australia will choose on a range of appointments optional by the Argus review the position of team presentation manager must be finalized first.
Ponting felt that Clarke would be troubled with an additional task of decision-making on the future tour of South Africa as interim coach Troy Cooley is not very at ease with the selection role trusted upon him.
"Unfortunately at the moment the way things are working out a lot more of the responsibility is going to come back on the captain for this next tour," Ponting said.
"So it's significant that the captain, the vice-captain and probably the senior players do as much as we can around the group on this trip. Troy's been around the group for a long time and understand everybody really well, but he's sort of been push into that selection role at the instant as well which is something very foreign to him," he experiential.
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