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| Batting Style |
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Right-arm medium |
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| Full Name |
Ricky Ponting |
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| Nationality |
Australian |
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| Date of Birth |
December 19, 1974 |
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| Place of Birth |
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
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| Height |
5' 10" |
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| Also known as |
| Punter |
| Bestowed on him because of his love of having a punt or gamble on the races. |
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| Marital Status |
Married Rianna Jennifer Cantor in June 2002 and the couple have a daughter, Emmy Charlotte, born on July 26, 2008. |
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| Education |
He attended school at Mowbray Primary and then Brooks Senior High School in Launceston, and then attended the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy from 1992 to 1993. |
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| Profession |
Cricketer |
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| Role |
He is a strong middle-order batsman who makes sure that he finishes the game when in song. He also bowls slow medium pace, but is not that renowned for his bowling prowess. |
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| Known for |
Ricky Ponting is considered one of the finest batsmen in the history of the modern game. His skill doubled with power makes him a lethal batsman. He is known for his aggressive batting style and his confident captaincy. |
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| Fitness |
Ricky Ponting suffered a wrist injury when he was playing in West Indies. He underwent surgery to his injured wrist in Melbourne. This injury left the Aussie out for quite a while. He did make a comeback when the English toured down under. |
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| Physiotherapist |
John Gloster |
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| Career Highlights |
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Most Test runs in a calendar year by an Australian: 1,544 in 2005. Ponting has passed 1,000 test runs in a calendar year on five separate occasions, in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008. |
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Most Test centuries in a calendar year by an Australian: 7 in 2006 |
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Most Test centuries by an Australian: 37 |
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Most ODI runs by an Australian: 11,594 |
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Most ODI centuries by an Australian: 26 |
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Most ODI fifties by an Australian: 63 |
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Most runs by an Australian in World Cups: 1,537 |
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Most sixes in a World Cup innings: 8, shared with Imran Nazir and Yuvraj Singh |
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Most centuries in World Cups: 4, equal with Mark Waugh, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar |
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Most Test runs on Australian soil: surpassing Allan Border during the Third Test in Perth against India, 16-19 Jan 2008. |
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Most times getting 100 runs in each innings of a Test, 3 times, is an equal record |
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Most victories as ODI captain: 122 |
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Highest victory rate as ODI captain in more than 20 matches: 75.74% |
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Most Cricket World Cup victories as captain: 22 |
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Most Cricket World Cups won as captain: 2, shared with Clive Lloyd |
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Most consecutive Test victories won as captain: 16, shared with Steve Waugh |
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Ricky Ponting (2007). Captain's Diary 2007. HarperCollins Publishers Australia |
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Ricky Ponting; Geoff Armstrong (2006). Captain's Diary 2006. HarperCollins Publishers Australia |
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Ricky Ponting; Brian Murgatroyd (2005). Ashes Diary. HarperCollins Publishers Australia |
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Ricky Ponting; Brian Murgatroyd (2004). Ricky Ponting's World Cup Diary. HarperCollins Publishers Australia |
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Ricky Ponting; Peter Staples (1998). Ricky Ponting. Ironbark Press |
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Ponting’s well-known off-field interest is betting on horse and greyhound races, revealed by his nickname, "Punter". |
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Ponting is a talented golfer, playing off a handicap of 1.7 |
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Ponting is a keen supporter - and number one ticket holder - of the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League. On 9 August 2007, Ponting appeared on The AFL Footy Show where he talked about his desire to become a Kangaroos board member |
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Ricky and wife Rianna have a superstitious liking for the number 14. |
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Ponting was involved in a fight outside a pub in Kings Cross, New South Wales in early 1999, and earned a suspension from the national team. He sustained a black eye in the fight. |
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During Australia's tour of India in 1998, Ponting was reportedly thrown out of Equinox night club in Calcutta. The Indian papers reported that Ponting was misbehaving with several women in the nightclub. Ponting was fined for this incident, and later apologised to the nightclub staff. |
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During the 4th Test of the 2005 Ashes series, at Trent Bridge, Ponting was angrily outspoken about the use of substitute fielders by the England side, particularly after being run out by such a substitute. He directed an abusive tirade at the England dressing-room and was subsequently fined 75 per cent of his match fee. After England won the match to take a two-one lead in the series, Ponting returned to the subject of substitutes in an interview with Australian radio: "I think it's an absolute disgrace the spirit of the game is being treated like that. It is within the rules; it's just not within the spirit of the game." England coach Duncan Fletcher later commented on this incident: "He [Ponting] completely blew his top. I did not actually think it at the time but, looking back now, that might be the moment when it became clear that England were going to regain the Ashes." |
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In 2005, he began using cricket bats with a graphite covering over the wooden blade of the bat. This was ruled by the MCC to have contravened Law 6.1, which states that bats have to be made of wood, although they may be "covered with material for protection, strengthening or repair not likely to cause unacceptable damage to the ball". Ponting and his bat supplier, Kookaburra Sport, agreed to comply. |
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In early 2006, in the Chappell-Hadlee Trophy, Ponting had an on-field argument with umpire Billy Bowden over signaling a no-ball because not enough players were within the inner circle. |
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In mid 2006, during a tour of Bangladesh, Ponting was accused of "badgering the umpires until he got what he wanted". He has also been accused of charging at the umpires in appeal, which is forbidden. |
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Ponting has been fined for dissent on more than one occasion. |
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After the final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, Ponting drew some criticism for appearing to ask BCCI president and Indian politician Sharad Pawar to "leave the podium", while his teammate Damien Martyn pushed him gently in the back so that his team could commence celebrations. The issue, while minor, was solved when Ponting issued a formal apology to Pawar. |
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After the Second Test of the 2007-08 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Ponting and the Australian team were strongly censured by sections of the media and commentators for not playing the match in the spirit of the game. The Sydney Morning Herald carried a headline: “Arrogant Ponting must be fired”, as well as a scathing critique by journalist and former England player Peter Roebuck, who branded Ponting arrogant and insisted that he be stripped of the captaincy. In a blog entry for The Bulletin, however, former Australian cricket captain Ian Chappell argued that Ponting should not be sacked because of his willingness to learn from his mistakes. |
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During Australia's 2008-09 tour of India, Ponting came under criticism for his inability to keep his bowlers up with the required over-rate, arguably squandering a small chance of victory in the final Test in a bid to avoid suspension; instead he incurred a fine. He failed to redress the matter during the subsequent home series against New Zealand, when match referee Chris Broad dealt a second successive fine for being three overs behind in the First Test: Ponting was stripped of thirty per cent of his A$12,750 match fee, twice the punishment of his team-mates. |
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Test
Dec 8-11, 1995 v/s Sri Lanka at Perth, Australia |
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ODI
Feb 15, 1995 v/s South Africa at Wellington, New Zealand |
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Twenty20
Feb 17, 2005, v/s New Zealand at Auckland, New Zealand |
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| Australia, ICC World XI, Kolkata Knight Riders, Somerset, Tasmania |
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| Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World: 2003 |
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| Wisden Cricketer of the Year: 2006 |
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| Allan Border Medal: 2004, 2006, 2007 |
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| Australian Test Player of the Year: 2003, 2004, 2007 |
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| Australian ODI Player of the Year: 2002, 2007 |
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| ICC Captain of the Year: 2007 |
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| ICC Test Player of the Year: 2006 |
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| ICC World Test XI: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 |
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| ICC World ODI XI: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 |
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| Cricket World Cup winner: 1999, 2003, 2007 |
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| Pura Cup winner: 2006-07 |
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| Ford Ranger Cup winner: 2007-08 |
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| Ponting had earned 14 "Man of the Match" awards in 110 Tests; he also has 25 such awards in 285 One-Day Internationals (including the joint award which he had declined from the Johannesburg match) |
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| Named Vice-Captain in Australia's greatest ever ODI team |
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