Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting, Ao (conceived 19 December 1974), nicknamed Punter, is an Australian previous cricketer who was skipper of the Australia national cricket group between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket. He is an expert right-gave batsman, slips and close getting fielder, and also an exceptionally intermittent bowler. He headed Australia to triumph at the 2003 and 2007 cricket planet containers and was additionally a part of the 1999 planet container winning group under Steve Waugh. 

He speaks to the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian provincial cricket, the Hobart Hurricanes in the Big Bash League, and played in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008. He is broadly recognized by numerous to be one of the best batsmen of the advanced period, on top of Sachin Tendulkar of India and Brian Lara of the West Indies. On 1 December 2006, he arrived at the most elevated rating attained by a Test batsman in the most recent 50 years. 

In the wake of being included in over 160 Tests and 370 Odis, Ponting is Australia's heading run-scorer in Test and Odi cricket. He is one of just four players (in addition to Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis) in history to have scored 13,000 Test runs. Measurably, he is a standout amongst the best chiefs ever, with 48 triumphs in 77 Tests between 2004 and 31 December 2010. As a player, Ricky Ponting is the main cricketer in history to be included in 100 Test victories. Ponting additionally expects the record to remember have been included in most extreme Odi triumphs as a player with 262 wins. 

Acquainted with cricket by father Graeme and uncle Greg Campbell, Ponting played for the Mowbray Under–13s group at the age of 11 in 1985–86. In January 1986, he participated in the five-day yearly Northern Tasmania lesser cricket competition.[18] After scoring four centuries in a week, bat maker Kookaburra gave Ponting a sponsorship contract while in only eighth evaluation primarily on the over of these four centuries. Ponting took this structure into the Under-16s week-long rivalry not exactly a month later, scoring an even century on the last day. Ted Richardson, the previous leader of the Northern Tasmanian Schools Cricket Association said: "Ricky is absolutely the equivalent of David Boon at this.

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