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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%.
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.
The last match was also successful for the home team, with Ponting not required to bat. [ 35 ] Ponting started his 1994–95 campaign with a century against eventual Shield champions Queensland in Brisbane, in a performance that impressed Queensland captain Allan Border , who had just retired from international cricket after leading the ...
Ricky Ponting (2/4) Australia: 458: 2 India: 26 December 2003: Won 159: 111: Mohammad Yousuf Pakistan: 134: 1 Australia: 26 December 2004: Lost 160: 142: Damien Martyn Australia: 245: 2 Pakistan: 26 December 2004: Won 161: 117: Ricky Ponting (3/4) Australia: 198: 1 South Africa: 26 December 2005: Won 162: 122: Michael Hussey Australia: 203: 1 ...
This match recorded the highest aggregate runs in a match: (872), surpassing the previous record of 693 set by India and Pakistan in 2004. This match recorded the most sixes hit in a match in ODIs (26) and the most fours hit in a match in ODIs (89). [Later Surpassed] Ricky Ponting (AUS) scored the fastest 150 in ODIs, reaching this target in 99 ...
The last three overs were played in almost complete darkness, during which Sri Lanka added nine runs, giving Australia a 53-run victory via the Duckworth–Lewis method. [3] The umpires later apologised for their error, and stated that the match should have ended then with Australia winning by 37 runs. [4] Australian captain Ricky Ponting
The Australian cricket team ended the 2005–06 season by touring Bangladesh in April 2006. The series was seen as an uneventful way to end the season as Australia, who were twenty points clear of second place in the ICC Test Championship, played a Bangladeshi team who had won one Test match in their cricketing history and were ranked at the bottom, over 100 points behind Australia.
Englishman Joe Root has the highest score in a hundredth Test match; he was the first player to have scored a double century (200 runs or more) in their hundredth Test match. [11] Australian Ricky Ponting is the only player to have scored two centuries in their hundredth Test match; [12] Ponting made scores of 120 and 143 not out against South ...