Ricky Ponting Australian Cricket captain

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting – The Australian Cricket captain is about to take strike. When people in Australia here this sentence, they go crazy about Punter. Welcome to this dedicated Ricky Ponting website, where you will get loads of info on Punter – Ricky Ponting. Punter is the nickname of Ricky Ponting. This lanky Tasmanian ruled the batting world from early 2004 to late 2007.

You will get loads of stuff about Punter on this cool Ricky Ponting website. This Ricky Ponting website would give you an insight on how Australian Cricket team become such a huge and almost invincible team in the decade of 2000s, pictures and wallpapers of Punter – Ricky Ponting. Punter took over captaincy of Australian ODI team in 2002 from Steve Waugh and Test captaincy in 2004. Since then, Australia has seen new heights in the world of cricket and became world champions twice under the captaincy of Punter. Ricky Ponting has always silenced his critics by scoring plenty of runs, winning games for Australia almost single handedly and by his sharp moves in the field and straight forward remarks off the field.

Name: Ricky Thomas Ponting
Born: December 19, 1974
Born in: Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Father name: Graeme
Mother name: Lorraine
Nickname: Punter
Height: 5"10
Batting style: Right Handed
Bowling style: Right arm off break, Right arm medium
Shirt no: 14
Major teams: Australia, Tasmania, Somerset, Kolkata Knight Riders

Ricky Ponting is an inspiration to every Australian youth. In his early days, he was compared to fellow Tasmanian, David Boon. Punter made his international debut against South Africa in New Zealand. This was obviously an ODI tournament. His Test debut came against Sri Lanka in 1995. Before becoming the captain of Australian side, Ricky Ponting was a brat and has been thrown out of Australian team for many a times due to alcohol related issues and indiscipline. But since becoming captain of the national side, Ricky Ponting has improved a lot and he give its credit to his wife, Rianna Jennifer Cantor, with whom Punter married in 2002.

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