Ponting deserves more time: Viv

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Under pressure ... Richards says Ponting deserves to make the call on his Test career. Source:AFP

West Indies master blaster Viv Richards says Ricky Ponting deserves to control the timing of his exit from Test cricket.

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Ponting, who turns 38 next month, sparked a fresh bout of speculation over his playing future after being dismissed for a duck on Sunday in Australia's first innings of the first Test against South Africa in Brisbane.

Richards - one of Wisden magazine's five cricketers of the 20th century - says champion players like Ponting are special cases.

"You should give him the benefit of the doubt, for him to bow out when he likes because I think he deserves that," Richards said on Monday at a Melbourne pro-am golf event.

"When you have guys who have done so well, it's important you enjoy them for a long time and when they go, appreciate that also."

Former Australia skipper Ponting is Test cricket's second-leading run-scorer.

However, he's followed his modest tour of West Indies in April (146 runs at 24.33) with a first-up failure to begin the home summer.

Richards's career ended in 1991 at the age of 39, scoring 376 runs at an average of 53.71 in his farewell series in England.

The powerful hitter and five-star entertainer finished with an overall average of 50.23 including 24 hundreds.

The Shane Warne-led Big Bash League team Melbourne Stars are holding talks with the 60-year-old Richards about a possible mentoring role with the squad this summer.

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