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Full name Ricky Thomas Ponting
Born December 19, 1974, Launceston, Tasmania
Current age 30 years 206 days
Major teams ICC World XI, Australia, Somerset, Tasmania
Playing role Higher middle order batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Height 1.78 m
Education Mowbray Primary; Brooks Senior High School, Launceston
class mat inns no runs hs ave bf sr 100 50 4s 6s ct
st
Tests 88 143 20 6950 257 56.50 11843 58.68 22 27 805 47 103 0
ODIs 232 226 28 8290 145 41.86 10633 77.96 18 45 692 98 93 0
Twenty-20 Int. 2 2 1 98 98* 98.00 58 168.96 0 1 3 0
First-class 180 301 44 15083 257 58.68 54 60 185 0
List A 297 291 40 10439 145 41.58 21 60 122 0
Twenty-20 3 3 1 118 98* 59.00 78 151.28 0 1 3 0
class mat balls runs wkts bbi bbm ave econ sr 4 5 10
Tests 88 479 215 4 1/0 1/0 53.75 2.69 119.75 0 0 0
ODIs 232 150 104 3 1/12 1/12 34.66 4.16 50.00 0 0 0
Twenty-20 Int. 2 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
First-class 180 1374 741 13 2/10 57.00 3.23 105.69 0 0
List A 297 349 269 8 3/34 3/34 33.62 4.62 43.62 0 0 0
Twenty-20 3 0 0 0 - - - - - 0 0 0
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Test debut Australia v Sri Lanka at Perth - Dec 8-11, 1995 scorecard
Last Test New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Mar 26-29, 2005
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ODI debut Australia v South Africa at Wellington - Feb 15, 1995
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Last ODI England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005 scorecard
Twenty-20 Int. debut New Zealand v Australia at Auckland - Feb 17,
2005 scorecard
Last Twenty-20 Int. England v Australia at Southampton - Jun 13,
2005 scorecard
First-class span 1992/93 - 2004/05
List A span 1992/93 - 2005
Twenty-20 span 2004 - 2005
Notes : Allan Border Medal 2004
Acclaimed by academy coach Rod Marsh as the best
teenage batsman he had ever seen, Ricky Ponting began with Tasmania
at 17 and Australia at 20, and was given out unluckily for 96 on his
Test debut. He was and remains the archetypal modern cricketer: he
plays all the shots with a full flourish of the bat and knows only
to attack, and his breathtaking, dead-eye fielding is a force in the
game by itself. A gambler and a buccaneer, he is a natural at
one-day cricket. He has had his setbacks, against probing seam
attacks and high-class finger-spin, which, when out of form, he
plays with hard hands. A few years ago there were off-field
indiscretions that led him once to admit publicly to an alcohol
problem, but he became part of the heartbeat of one of Australia's
most successful teams and after the retirement of Ian Healy he took
over as the man who led the singing of the victory song. With many
lessons learned, Ponting's growing maturity was acknowledged by the
ACB when he saw off competition from Warne and Gilchrist to succeed
Steve Waugh as Australia's one-day captain early in 2002. It was a
seamless transition: Ponting led the successful 2003 World Cup
campaign from the front, clouting a coruscating 140 not out in the
final, and acceded to the Test crown when Waugh finally stepped down
early in 2004. A broken thumb suffered in the Champions Trophy in
England forced him to watch Adam Gilchrist lead Australia's first
series victory in India for 35 years from the dressing room,
although he returned for the final Test. Batting-wise his first year
was one to forget, but he began his second with 207 against
Pakistan, joining Don Bradman and Greg Chappell as the only
Australians to reach four double-centuries.
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