Ricky Ponting
Ricky Thomas Ponting, AO (D.o.b 19 December 1974), is an Australian previous global cricketer, and two-time World Cup winning skipper in 2003 and 2007, broadly viewed as one of the best batsmen of all time. Ponting was commander of the Australian national group amid its 'brilliant time'; somewhere in the range of 2004 and 2011 in Test and 2002 and 2011 in ODI. He is a pro right-given batsman, a brilliant slip/close getting defender, and additionally an extremely periodic bowler. He was named "Cricketer of the decade 2000". He driven Australia to triumph at the 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cups and was additionally an individual from the 1999 World Cup winning group under Steve Waugh.
He spoke to the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian household cricket, the Hobart Hurricanes in Australia's local T20 rivalry the Big Bash League, and played in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008. He is generally considered by numerous individuals to be a standout amongst other batsmen of the cutting edge time, close by Sachin Tendulkar of India and Brian Lara of the West Indies. On 1 December 2006, he achieved the most astounding rating accomplished by a Test batsman over the most recent 50 years, until the point that it was outperformed by Steve Smith in December 2017. Ricky is apparently the most enhanced player to have played local cricket in Tasmania.
Ponting made his top notch make a big appearance for Tasmania in November 1992, when only 17 years and 337 days old, turning into the most youthful Tasmanian to play in a Sheffield Shield coordinate. Be that as it may, he needed to hold up until 1995 preceding making his One Day International (ODI) make a big appearance, amid a quadrangular competition in New Zealand in a match against South Africa. His Test make a big appearance pursued not long after, when chosen for the main Test of the 1995 home arrangement against Sri Lanka in Perth, in which he scored 96. He lost his place in the national group a few times in the period before mid 1999, because of absence of frame and control, before getting to be One Day International skipper in mid 2002 and Test chief in mid 2004.
Subsequent to being engaged with more than 160 Tests and 370 ODIs, Ponting is Australia's driving run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket. He is one of just four players (alongside Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis) in history to have scored 13,000 Test runs. Factually, he is a standout amongst the best chiefs ever, with 48 triumphs in 77 Tests somewhere in the range of 2004 and 31 December 2010. As a player, Ponting is the main cricketer in history to be engaged with 100 Test victories. Ponting likewise holds the record to have been associated with the most ODI triumphs as a player, with 262 wins.
On 29 November 2012 Ponting reported his retirement from Test cricket, the day preceding he would play in the Perth Test against South Africa. This was his 168th and last Test appearance,equalling the Australian record held by Steve Waugh. Ponting resigned on 3 December 2012 with a Test batting normal of 51.85. He kept on playing cricket far and wide. In February 2013 it was reported that he would commander the Mumbai Indians group in the Indian Premier League. and in March 2013 he was declared as the primary universal establishment player for the Caribbean Premier League. Later that month it was uncovered by Ponting this would be his last season playing cricket, as toward the finish of the opposition he would resign from all types of the game. In July 2018, he was accepted into the ICC Hall of Fame