Ponting scored 18 runs at an average of 3.6 in five innings in the series — the longest sequence of single-digit scores in his 375-game ODI career.

Only hours before selectors met Monday and decided to drop Ponting due to his poor recent form, the 37-year-old ex-captain told a news conference following Australia's 110-run win over India at Brisbane that he had no intention of retiring and wanted to bat his way back into form.

Now he's considering his career options.

Ponting took 13 balls to get off the mark on Sunday and was out for a scratchy seven runs from 26 balls. He has always been determined to go out on his own terms - having proven his worth in test matches with a return to form in the 4-0 sweep of India this season despite criticism of his continued selection.

But selectors went a long way toward taking the decision out of his hands in the ODI arena.

"Ricky Ponting has been dropped from the squad due to his lack of form," chief selector John Inverarity said. "The team will not seem the same without him, but moving on from the omission of players who have been outstanding over a long period of time is the nature of elite sport." Inverarity said he hoped Ponting leaves the door open to continue playing test cricket.

"Ricky is going to consider his future over the next couple of days and he'll talk it over with his family and with his manager and my guess is he'll be giving a press conference in the next two or three days," Inverarity said.

"He made a double century in his last test match and we are hoping that he remains available for test match cricket, but there can be no guarantees in elite sport and in the Australian cricket team." Ponting scored a double century, a century and three half centuries and averaged 108 in six Test innings against India this season which cemented his place in the test team and at least kept him on course for his long-stated aim of playing in the 2013 Ashes series.

Ponting quit as captain after Australia's World Cup quarterfinal loss to India last March but remained in the squad as a specialist batsman and returned to lead the team briefly last week because his successor, Michael Clarke, was sidelined with a hamstring strain.

The return of Clarke and vice-captain Shane Watson this week meant there was no longer room in the 13-man squad for Ponting, who has scored 13,704 runs at an average of 42 in 375 ODIs dating back to 1995.

He guided Australia to World Cup titles in 2003 and 2007. He was also part of Steve Waugh's winning squad in 1999.

Ponting was in charge in the last edition, shrugging off hot debate about his form and his tenure as captain before hitting a career-salvaging 104 in the quarterfinal loss to eventual champion India.

"Ricky's record speaks for itself. He is one of the truly great performers in the history of Australian ODI cricket, with his reputation enhanced further by him captaining Australia to two World Cup victories," Inverarity said. "Ricky's contribution goes far beyond his batting statistics and his brilliant fielding." After Sunday's win in Brisbane, Ponting conceded his batting form had been poor in the last five matches but reiterated his intention to keep making himself available for ODI selection for this series and for Australia's upcoming tour to the West Indies.

"Yep. Definitely," he told a post-match news conference, aware that selectors were meeting on Monday. "It's fair to say that I've struggled in the first five games (but) I'm not going to put my hand up and say I want a break.

"When you're going through a lean trot like I've had the last couple of games, you want to be able to turn that around. The last couple of weeks, my body has stayed in touch with everything. It's probably my mind's just been a little bit behind where I needed it to be." Ponting said he was still practicing as hard as ever and was sure he wasn't ready for retirement.

"If that time ever comes for me when I start questioning if I want to play the game or not, then the time has already passed you that you should have given up the game," he said.

"I wouldn't have run to the nets yesterday for an hour and a half if I didn't have that determination to try and make myself better and improve every day. That's always been the way I've gone about my cricket." Along with returns for Clarke and Watson, who has been sidelined since November, selectors recalled paceman Ryan Harris to replace left-armer Mitchell Starc and opted to stick with Matthew Wade as wicketkeeper at the expense of Haddin. Haddin, who was vice-captain in the test series win over India last month, hasn't played at all in the tri-series and selectors originally issued a statement saying the veteran 'keeper was being rested.

Australia's next match is Friday against Sri Lanka at Hobart, in Ponting's home state.

Squad: Michael Clarke (captain), Shane Watson (vice captain), Dan Christian, Xavier Doherty, Peter Forrest, Ryan Harris, Ben Hilfenhaus, David Hussey, Mike Hussey, Brett Lee, Clint McKay, Matthew Wade, David Warner.