Ponting has played for his country 152 times in the longest form of the game and recorded 99 wins and while he will hope to be part of the Australian team for the one-day World Cup this spring, the selectors may decide to rebuild the Test team without him.
That was in the spring of 1986 when Barcelona lost the first leg of its European Cup semifinal to Gothenburg of Sweden 3-0, but stormed back to win the second leg 3-0 at Camp Nou.