ricky ponting Profile - ICC Profile, Age, Career Info & Stats.
ricky ponting is a cricketer(sportsman) from Australia. His ICC profile, age, career info & stats are given below.
Full Name
Ricky Thomas Ponting
Born
December 19, 1974, Launceston, Tasmania
Age
48 years old
Nicknames
Punter
Batting Style
Right hand Bat
Bowling Style
Right arm Medium
Playing Role
Top order Batter
Height
1.78 m
Education
Mowbray Primary; Brooks Senior High School, Launceston
Batting Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 168 | 375 | 17 | 10 |
Inn | 287 | 365 | 16 | 9 |
Runs | 13378 | 13704 | 401 | 91 |
Avg | 51.85 | 42.04 | 28.64 | 10.11 |
SR | 58.72 | 80.39 | 132.78 | 71.09 |
HS | 257 | 164 | 98 | 28 |
NO | 29 | 39 | 2 | 0 |
100s | 41 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
50s | 62 | 82 | 2 | 0 |
4s | 1509 | 1231 | 41 | 5 |
6s | 73 | 162 | 11 | 2 |
Bowling Stats
Test | ODI | T20I | IPL | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Mat | 168 | 375 | 17 | 10 |
Inn | 36 | 5 | - | - |
Balls | 587 | 150 | - | - |
Runs | 276 | 104 | - | - |
Wkt | 5 | 3 | - | - |
BBI | 0 / 1 | 12 / 1 | - | - |
BBM | 0 / 1 | 12 / 1 | - | - |
Eco | 2.82 | 4.16 | - | - |
Avg | 55.2 | 34.67 | - | - |
5W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
10W | 0 | 0 | - | - |
Teams he has played for:
- GD Campbell
- Australia
- Antigua Hawksbills
- ICC World XI
- Kolkata Knight Riders
- Mumbai Indians
- Somerset
- Surrey
- Tasmania
Heres what CricBuzz says about him.
A young and raw Ricky Ponting burst into the international arena in the year 1995 as he debuted in both the formats. He had garnered a big reputation in the domestic circuit for having the ability to produce the big runs and most people were in awe of his skill set. However, disciplinary issues were equally prevalent with Ricky back then and it did hound him in the initial years of his international career as well. But, he managed to pick himself up and from the 1998-99 season, started to mature steadily into a top flight batsman. Having started out as a middle order batsman, he also started to take ownership of the pivotal number three slot which he would make iconic in the years to follow.
A highlight of Ponting's batting was the sheer intent he had, right from the first ball. It wouldn't necessarily be an aerial shot, would just be that positive trigger movement forward and he didn't mind playing the pull/hook shot even off the front foot with incredible ease. In fact, that stroke went onto become Ponting's signature shot in his career. He rarely let the bowlers to dictate terms and most of the times, bullied them into submission. His upward spike as a batsman meant that the leadership role wasn't far away. With Steve Waugh declining, captaincy finally came to Ponting in 2002 when he was at the peak of his powers as a batsman. Over the next 5 years, not only did he as a captain win consecutive World Cups and Champions Trophy titles, but also went up to another level as a batsman.
From 2002-2007, Ponting smashed an insane 41 international centuries across formats - testimony of the dominance he had over the bowlers. Apart from the limited-overs glory, Australia were also ruthless in Tests, carrying forward the legacy created by Steve Waugh. However, it wasn't all rosy for Ricky, especially in the longest format where the pain of losing the Ashes series happened to him thrice. It wasn't hard to understand the fact that he enjoyed captaining in the shorter format more as his creativity worked well in white-ball cricket whereas in Tests, his tactics were mostly revolving around the starry bowling attack. Once the senior bowlers left, Ponting started to feel the heat and although the story was similar in ODIs, he had a better grip over proceedings.
After the 2011 World Cup where Australia were eliminated in the quarterfinal, Ponting stood down from leadership and Michael Clarke was thrust to the role for all formats. 'Punter' as he is fondly called, barely played any games after giving up captaincy and bid farewell to international cricket in the 2012-13 home series against South Africa. His last year for Australia was fidgety, as is the case with most ageing players and hence, wasn't able to end on a high. Nevertheless, Ponting's contributions are invaluable to Australian cricket and he remains the second best batsman ever produced by the country after the Don. Apart from the several silverware that we won, there were a plethora of records that he created which may be tough if not impossible to break.
At the time of his retirement, Ponting was only second to Sachin Tendulkar in terms of total international runs and centuries. A true legend of the game, Ricky even played a part in the IPL although not much with much individual success. After a few torrid years with KKR, he shifted to MI where he even opened with Tendulkar - a rare feast for cricket lovers. However, Ponting soon realized that he wasn't adjusting well enough to the format and gave up captaincy to become a mentor of the side. That same season MI won their first ever IPL trophy and Ponting coached them to their second one in 2015. Ponting harbors hopes of coaching the Australian team and has even been a stop-gap replacement at times, especially in T20s. When not doing such assignments, he works as TV commentator and is a delight to listen.
By Hariprasad Sadanandan
Heres what ESPNcricinfo says about him.
Ricky Ponting, the most uncompromising player of his generation, grew into Australia's most successful run-maker and sits below only Bradman among the greatest batters the country has produced.
Acclaimed by Rod Marsh as the best teenage batter he had ever seen, Ponting began with Tasmania at 17 and Australia at 20, and was given out unluckily for 96 on his Test debut in 1995. There were some teething problems in the early years, including a public admission of an alcohol problem, but the longer he went on, the more he matured, piling up the runs and records. He finished with 27,483 runs and 71 hundreds in international cricket, the second-most prolific Test scorer when he retired, behind Sachin Tendulkar.
Ponting played all the shots with a full flourish of the bat - the cover drive and the pull were particularly productive for him - and knew only to attack. His breathtaking, dead-eye fielding was a force in the game by itself.
The batting highlights included an average of 54 from 29 Tests against India, boosted by two thunderous double-centuries in consecutive matches in 2003, which fetched him a series aggregate of 706 runs, and another double in his last series against them in 2012. Against the old enemy, England, he started with a hundred at Headingley in 1997 in his first Test against them that not only lifted Australia from 50 for 4 but also helped take them to a massive win of the sort they would trademark in the decade or so to come. In the 2002-03 Ashes mauling, Ponting was to the fore with hundreds in the first two Tests; his 156 to wrest a draw at Old Trafford in 2005 was an epic in a series filled to the brim with them; and he gorged himself In the 5-0 whitewash of 2006-07 with 196 and 142 in Brisbane and Adelaide, and two fifties besides. Those performances came at the tail end of a run that started 11 months earlier, during which he made eight hundreds in nine Tests. Between 2002 and 2008, he only went two years without scoring at least 1000 runs apiece in Tests. In ODIs he pulled the feat off in six years, including 2003, when in the World Cup final he pummelled 140 unbeaten runs against India, taking the title off them before their chase had even started.
As captain, Ponting was a little less dominantly successful, but his record was magnificent all the same: 48 wins in 77 Tests gave him a win percentage second only to Steve Waugh in the game's history, despite defeats in three Ashes series and against South Africa and India. He also led Australia to 26 consecutive undefeated (completed) 50-over World Cup games, stepping down from the captaincy when that run ended, in the 2011 World Cup. For the first three years of his reign he was in charge of a superstar unit and did not have to do a whole lot tactically, but once the core of that team retired he had to change from a manager to moulder.
After his retirement, Ponting turned to coaching, with three years at the helm of Mumbai Indians in the IPL, including during their title win in 2015. In 2018, he took over as coach of the Delhi franchise.