Langer's quick reaction to Ponting's 'sharp pains'

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Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has returned to commentating duties astatine the archetypal Test betwixt Australia and the West Indies astatine Perth's Optus Stadium aft suffering a wellness scare connected Friday afternoon.

Ponting was taken to infirmary for precautionary tests connected his bosom aft the 47-year-old reported feeling dizzy midway done time 3 of the Test during commentary duties for Seven.

Ponting did not instrumentality to the commentary container for the day session, but sources told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald that the erstwhile Test skipper was feeling "fine" aft the infirmary visit. He aboriginal returned to his edifice connected Friday.

Ponting shed airy connected the concern to unfastened the network's sum connected time four, assuring fans helium is OK.

"I astir apt frightened a batch of radical yesterday and had a small scary infinitesimal for myself," helium said.

"I was sitting successful the comms container halfway done the stint and past got a mates of truly short, crisp pains to my chest. I tried to agelong it retired and get escaped of it, and astir apt didn't privation to springiness excessively overmuch distant erstwhile I was connected the air.

"I had a mates of those incidents, got done the stint and went to locomotion to the backmost of the commentary container and got a spot lightheaded and dizzy and grabbed the bench. I mentioned to JL (Justin Langer) connected the mode out, who was commentating with me, that I had had these pains successful my thorax and (producer) Chris Jones heard maine arsenic good and conscionable reacted consecutive distant and got maine retired of there.

"10 oregon 15 minutes later, I was successful the infirmary getting the champion attraction that I perchance could.

"I consciousness large this morning, I americium each shiny and caller this morning."

Ponting was particularly grateful to erstwhile teammate and long-time person Justin Langer, who took him to spot Australian squad doc Leigh Golding.

Following the sudden deaths of cricketing greats Rod Marsh and Shane Warne earlier this year, the ex-top bid batter was gladsome to cognize his mate had his back.

"I deliberation the bottommost enactment is, the information that I was consenting to stock it with JL and the information that your mate looks aft you, I deliberation arsenic radical of our age, we are a small reluctant to stock overmuch oregon speech astir our wellness and I deliberation that is simply a bully learning curve for maine yesterday, particularly with what has happened successful the past 12 oregon 18 months to truly adjacent radical astir us.

"My small mate looked aft me, got maine down determination and I'm back, shiny and caller this morning."

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