"Glad to get a break after Ashes"

"Rest is really important for all the senior players during such a long and hectic schedule, with no break in our program until April next year. That means almost a year on the road for some of us," Ricky Ponting said.

"I'm grateful to Cricket Australia for giving me a couple of Twenty20 and one-day matches off after the Test series," he said.

"...it was great to give the guys a couple of days off.

Ben Hilfenhaus jumped on a train and went to Paris, Marcus North visited his in-laws in Newcastle, Michael Clarke went off to London and I chilled out with my family for a couple of days in Leeds," Ponting revealed.

"Cricket Australia has been terrific in recent years at finding a game for me to have off here and there with the bigger series in mind," he said.

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