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Ponting admits: "It's within the rules of the game" then goes on to say: "but it's just not within the spirit of the game, which is what we're all trying to uphold."

So he agrees it's within the rules, but it's nor in the spirit of the game; "Glenn McGrath, who had to sit out the match with an elbow injury, backed his captain. "The only time you should go off during a Test match is obviously if you need to go off for an injury or pop off for a quick toilet break. That's it. Test cricket to us is played by the guys who are in the team. If you are not fit enough or you are looking at ways to keep your players fresh, I think that's not quite in the spirit of the game. As a player myself, I'd keep playing. You would have to drag me off the field."

Ponting claims that as the Tests are in England, Vaughan can pull in the best talent from anywhere in he country he sees that as not in the spirit of the game.

He is a whinger for sure, he himself was reported to have abused the members on leaving the field he always complains, but maybe he has a point in regard to the spirit of the game and if that is so when it's Australia's turn in the years to come maybe they can do the same thing, maybe they have in the past?

In the end it's the umpires who have to monitor changes in the field via the team captains and it is they who need to interpret events.