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Ricky Thomas Ponting AO (born 19 December 1974) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator and former player. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time and is the most successful captain in international cricket history, with 220 victories in 324 matches with a winning rate of 67.91%.
Matching Ricky Ponting and beating Steve Smith, those close to Sam Konstas tell BBC Sport about his journey to international cricket. The making of Konstas - Australia's new batting star Skip to ...
News. Science & Tech. Shopping. Sports. Weather. Konstas, 19, to make Australia debut in Boxing Day Test. ... becoming the youngest player to do so since Ricky Ponting in 1993.
Ricky Ponting has scored 71 centuries in international cricket. Ricky Ponting is a former Australian cricketer and captain of the Australia national cricket team. He has scored centuries (100 or more runs) on 41 occasions in Test cricket and 30 times in One Day International (ODI) matches, both of which are Australian records.
Still, Ponting hit an unbeaten 59 from 52 balls against a touring England A side in Hobart. [27] After the season's end, still aged 18, Ponting played seven four-day games for the Australian Academy, scoring 484 runs at 96.70. [28] Speculation ignited that Ponting was an outsider to be selected for the Australian squad on their 1993 tour to ...
This was done with centuries from Justin Langer (223) and Ricky Ponting (141*) as Australia scored 5–552 in their only innings. Despite an effort from V. V. S. Laxman who scored 167 runs from 198 balls in the second innings, the damage was done in the first innings with India being bowled out for 150 with Glenn McGrath leading the charge as ...
Ponting: At the Close of Play is the autobiography of the former Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was published on 21 October 2013 by HarperSport . [ 4 ]
Australia batted first and centuries from Ricky Ponting and Michael Hussey makes them put a score of 430 Indian pacer Zaheer Khan took five wickets. India reply with 360 with half centuries from Zaheer Khan and Harbhajan Singh. Australia declared their second innings at 228/6 setting up India a target of 299 in the final day of play and India ...