After a Scary Health Scare at the Perth Test, Ricky Ponting Is Back At Work Looking “Shiny And New”

Ricky Ponting, a legendary batsman, was brought to the hospital with chest pains and dizziness during the first test match between Australia and the West Indies. On Saturday, he made his triumphant return to the commentary box, saying that he felt “shiny and new.”

The Australian commentator, who is 47 years old and had the scare on Friday about lunchtime, did not return to call the final two periods of the match in Perth because he had to get medical attention.

“I probably scared a lot of people yesterday and had a little scary moment for myself, to be honest,” Ponting, who played 168 Tests and 375 ODIs during a glittering career, said when he resumed broadcast duties on Saturday. “I probably scared a lot of people yesterday and had a little scary moment for myself,” he added.

“When I was about halfway through the shift, I was sitting in the communications box when I started to feel a couple of fairly short, stabbing pangs through my chest. I worked hard to make it last longer and get rid of it, and I’m glad to say that I probably didn’t give too much information out when I was on television “he continued.

“But I had a couple of those sorts of episodes, got through the spell, got up, went to walk to the rear of the commentary box and became a bit light-hearted and dizzy and grabbed the bench,” he said. “But I had a couple of those kind of incidents.”

Ricky Ponting confided in his good friend and fellow commentator Justin Langer about the discomfort he was experiencing, and Langer, a former Australian coach, recommended that Ponting seek medical attention as soon as possible.

He expressed his happiness by saying, “I feel terrific this morning, I’m all shiny and new.”

“But I believe the main line is the fact that I was willing to express it… it’s really been a fantastic learning curve for me yesterday, especially with what’s transpired over the last 12 or 18 months with really close individuals around us,” she said. “But the bottom line is that I was willing to share it.”

Shane Warne, Rod Marsh, and Andrew Symonds were all prominent figures in Australian cricket, and all three of them passed away in shocking circumstances in the same year. This has been a terrible year for the sport.