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BRISBANE, Monday (Reuters) Australia's one-day captain Ricky Ponting says swapping the leadership role with test skipper Steve Waugh could be a little disruptive but that it added the benefit of a fresh approach. "It's actually been good in the past when we've had players change over from the one-day side to the test side just to get a few new faces around the group," Ponting told a news conference in Brisbane on Sunday.

"The guys who've been out and come back in again usually add a bit of life to things because they've been away for a while. "It probably will be a little bit disruptive but we've been there and done it all before and it's never really been much of a problem," Ponting added. "It may be something we have to sit down and talk about before things get under way.

"But, knowing the way Stephen is and the way I approach things with cricket and the captaincy, I can't see it being a problem."

The 37-year-old Waugh, who has not played for Australia since the third test against South Africa in Durban in March, was Australia's one-day captain in the late 1990s when opening batsman and test skipper Mark Taylor was dropped from team.

Waugh was omitted from Australia's team for the triangular limited-overs tournament against Kenya and Pakistan starting in Nairobi next week. However he is determined to play in next year's World Cup and said last week that, although there were no guarantees he would captain Australia in this year's Ashes, he backed himself to remain in the side through weight of runs. "I don't fully expect to be captain," said Waugh. "I would love to be captain against England again but it's not guaranteed.

"I'm backing myself to make runs. I know I'm good enough. "I would have liked to think I have done enough over the last 10 years."

Waugh was overlooked for the one-day tournament against South Africa in March and for the home series against Pakistan in June, with the 27-year-old Ponting appointed to lead a side preparing for next year's World Cup defence.

Waugh, who is playing for English county team Kent, has also been left out of Australia's squad for next month's ICC Champions Trophy in Sri Lanka but will captain his country in the test series against Pakistan in October.

Australia host England for a five-test Ashes series starting in November and will then play in a triangular limited-overs series against England and Sri Lanka before departing for the World Cup in South Africa in February.

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