Ricky Thomas Ponting AO (born 19 December 1974) is an Australian cricket coach, commentator, and former cricketer. Ponting was captain of the Australian national team during its "golden era", between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and is the most successful captain in international cricket history, with 220 victories in 324 matches with a winning rate of 67.91%. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest batsmen of all time and in December 2006 reached the highest rating achieved by a Test batsman for 50 years, although this was surpassed by Steve Smith in December 2017.[2] He stands third in the list of cricketers by number of international centuries scored.
Ponting announced his retirement from Test cricket in November 2012, the day before playing in his final Test against South Africa; this was his 168th and last Test appearance,[11] equalling the Australian record held by Steve Waugh.[12][13] He retired with a Test batting average of 51.85,[14] although he continued to play cricket around the world until 2013.[15]
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During Tasmanian Sheffield Shield matches at the NTCA Ground (Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association Ground), Ponting helped out with the scoreboard, thereby surrounding himself with international cricketers.[28][29] After leaving school at the end of year 10 in 1990, he began work as a groundsman at Scotch Oakburn College, a private school in Launceston. In 1991 the Northern Tasmanian Cricket Association sponsored Ponting to attend a fortnight's training at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide.[30][31] The two weeks turned into a full two-year sponsorship as he was said to be the best 17-year-old batsman Academy coach Rod Marsh had ever seen.[32]
On 7 September 2009, Ponting announced his retirement from Twenty20 international cricket in order to prolong his career.[234][235] He was succeeded as Australian Twenty20 captain by team vice-captain Michael Clarke.
Ponting retained the captaincy of Australia for the 2011 World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Australia had won the previous three World Cups and entered the tournament as the world's top-ranked ODI team. Australia qualified for the quarter-finals, although Ponting failed to find form, scoring 102 runs in five innings during the group stage of the tournament.[273] Australia met India in the quarter-finals and were defeated by five wickets.[274] Ponting scored 104, his first century in international cricket in over a year.[275] After being knocked out of the tournament, Ponting resigned his position as captain at both Test and ODI levels, endorsed Michael Clarke as his successor, and indicated his intention to continue playing.[276]
He was considered by some observers[who?] to have trouble against quality spin, especially against Indian off spinner Harbhajan Singh, who dismissed Ponting on 13 occasions in international cricket. Ponting had a tendency to rock onto the front foot and thrust his wrists at spinning deliveries, resulting in many catches close to the wicket. Ponting rarely employed the sweep shot against spin, something considered unusual for a top-order batsman. Instead, he looked to use his feet to come down the wicket to spinners, or play off the back foot through the off-side.[citation needed]Former West Indian captain, Viv Richards, who was rated as the third best Test cricketer in a 2002 poll by Wisden, said Ponting was his favourite current-day player to watch, slightly ahead of Sachin Tendulkar.
Throughout his career in international cricket, Ponting has been involved in the writing of a number of diaries on Australian cricket, which depict his experiences during the cricketing year. The books are produced with the help of a ghostwriter. His autobiography, Ponting: At the Close of Play, was published and released in November 2013.[328]
After forming a bond with the Nine Network's Kerry Packer during the World Series Cricket days, Greig was offered a "job for life" by Packer as a commentator during Nine's cricket coverage. Greig spent the rest of his life in Australia and continued his commentary role. He was regarded as one of cricket's top commentators in his career, noted for being unbiased, witty, and deeply enthusiastic about the game. His pitch reports, where he would use a car key or a pen to illustrate pitch characteristics or crack sizes (including the odd moment where his implements would become stuck in the pitch), were fondly remembered and imitated by fans. During the 2006 Ashes Perth Test, on commenting on the need for England's Steve Harmison to intimidate Australia's number 11 Glenn McGrath, Greig indicated the need to "Touch him up, before rolling him over".[35]
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As the nets at the Harare Sports Club came into view and he gained his first glimpse of Zimbabwe's cricket future, Tatenda Taibu paused to survey the scene. Freshly installed, at 20, as the youngest international captain in the history of the game, Taibu was arriving from a meeting to take part in Zimbabwe's first practice session of a new era. Two days earlier, on April 16, 2004, 13 players had gone on strike after the cricket board refused to meet their demands. Many of them were senior, experienced cricketers; all of them were white. The 14-man squad practising in the nets had been announced just hours after the strike was confirmed. The majority were young and untested at international level; only one was white.
The nightmare was just beginning for Taibu. Against the backdrop of the nation's descent into political and economic turmoil, with the rebel saga rumbling along, Zimbabwe's extremely green team played 34 matches in all formats over the next 17 months and won just two. All the while the board often resorted to bullying tactics and player rights were being eroded. In November 2005, Taibu began receiving threatening phone calls for standing up for those rights, forcing him and his young family into hiding. He announced his retirement from international cricket soon after, only for things to spin further out of control.
March 11, 2004 was a pivotal day in Zimbabwe's cricket history. That afternoon, with preparations for a one-day international against Bangladesh completed, Streak was summoned to the Zimbabwe Cricket Union's offices by managing director Vince Hogg. The issue was the racial composition of the team, which included just two players of colour. It had been selected by Macsood Ebrahim and his panel, which comprised coach Geoff Marsh, Ali Shah and Stephen Mangongo, and had been signed off by ZCU vice-chairman Justice Ahmed Ebrahim, Macsood's father.
Concerned, Streak resolved to take action. Ten days after the series against Bangladesh was won, he wrote a letter to Hogg demanding an end to unofficial quotas, more stringent qualification standards for the role of selector, the setting up of a players' association, with 50% of the costs to be met by the ZCU, and the restarting of National League cricket. Otherwise, Streak wrote, he would resign as captain.
He had to wait two decades for it, but in his last summer in the game, Ricky Ponting finally adds the Sheffield Shield to his bulging trophy cabinet. Unable to find form against South Africa, Ponting nonetheless enjoys a splendid season with Tasmania, winning the Shield player of the year for his 875 runs at 87.50. "I said when I retired from international cricket it'd be great to give this one more crack and try to win a title with Tassie," Ponting told ABC Grandstand. "I've lost a couple, I lost the one in Sydney (1993-94) and lost the one up at the Gabba last year so it's very special."
The most important thing is that he does so much of his good work away from the spotlight, in the many off-field ways that a cricket captain must lead. The dressing room are totally with him, including Kevin Pietersen, who Cook bravely and rightly brought back into the England fold last summer.
Elsewhere the captaincy cupboard is bare. Pietersen has the experience and know-how to have a second crack at the job but the wounds from his serious brushes with authority run too deep for it ever to be a viable proposition. 2ff7e9595c
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