Ricky Ponting
Australian Cricket Team
Awards & Profile:
Allan Border Medal 2004
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2006
Name
Ricky Thomas Ponting
Teams
Australia,
ICC World XI, Somerset,
Tasmania
Batting style
Right-hand bat
Bowling style
Right-arm medium
Ricky Ponting Achievements updated 20 nov 2008
- 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 four separate occasions, in 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006.
- Most Test centuries in a calendar year by an Australian: 7 in 2006
- Most Test centuries by an Australian: 36
- Most ODI runs by an Australian: 11,594
- Most ODI centuries by an Australian: 26
- Most ODI fifties by an Australian: 63
- Most runs by an Australian in World Cups: 1,537
- Most sixes in a World Cup innings: 8, shared with Imran Nazir and Yuvraj Singh
- Most centuries in World Cups- 4, equal with Mark Waugh, Sourav Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar
- Most Test runs on Australian soil: surpassing Allan Border during the Third Test in Perth against India, 16-19 Jan 2008.
Captaincy records of Ricky Ponting
- Highest victory rate as ODI captain in more than 20 matches: 75.74%
- Most Cricket World Cup victories as captain: 22
- Most Cricket World Cups won as captain: 2 shared with West Indies Clive Lloyd
- Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World: 2003
- Australian Test Player of the Year: 2003, 2004, 2007
- Australian ODI Player of the Year: 2002, 2007
- ICC Player of the Year: 2006, 2007
- ICC Captain of the Year: 2007
- ICC Test Player of the Year: 2006
- ICC World Test XI: 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
- ICC World ODI XI: 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Cricket World Cup winner: 1999, 2003, 2007
Ricky Ponting is close to Sachin tendulkar Record in Test cricket of Test centuries.
Career statistics of Ricky Ponting |
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Test debut |
Australia v Sri Lanka at Perth - Dec 8-11, 1995 |
ODI debut |
Australia v South Africa at Wellington - Feb 15, 1995 |
2003 WORLD CUP WIN OVER INDIA
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