Ricky Ponting

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Ricky Ponting

Australia
Personal information
Full name Ricky Thomas Ponting
Nickname Punter
Born 19 December 1974 (1974-12-19) (age 33)
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Role Batsman, Captain
Batting style Right-hand
Bowling style Right-arm medium
International information
Test debut (cap 366) 8 December 1995: v Sri Lanka
Last Test 30 May 2008: v West Indies
ODI debut (cap 123) 15 February 1995: v South Africa
Last ODI 4 March 2008: v India
ODI shirt no. 14
Domestic team information
Years Team
1993 – present Tasmania
2004 Somerset
2008 – present Kolkata Knight Riders
Career statistics
Tests ODIs FC List A
Matches 118 298 215 367
Runs scored 10,042 11,026 18,681 13,325
Batting average 58.72 43.40 60.06 42.98
100s/50s 35/40 26/63 69/76 30/78
Top score 257 164 257 164
Balls bowled 527 150 1,422 349
Wickets 5 3 14 8
Bowling average 46.20 34.66 54.07 33.62
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/0 1/12 2/10 3/34
Catches/stumpings 133/– 134/– 221/– 166/–

As of 5 June 2008
Source: cricinfo.com

Ricky Thomas Ponting (born December 19, 1974, in Launceston, Tasmania) is a professional Australian cricketer and current captain of the Australian cricket team in One Day International, Twenty20 International and Test cricket. Ponting also represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian Domestic cricket, a side he plays for intermittently due to international commitments. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very occasional right-arm medium pace bowler.

Ponting reached international standards at a young age for a batsman, making his One Day International and Test debuts in 1995 at the age of 20. However, his progress was not unhindered. He lost his place in the team several times due to lack of form and discipline issues, before rising to the One Day International captaincy in early 2002 and becoming Test captain in early 2004. As of March 2008, he is the third highest ranked batsman in both One Day International cricket and Test matches in the official ICC ratings.[1]

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[edit] Key achievements

Ricky Ponting is considered one of the best cricketers in modern cricket, and is ranked 3rd, Graeme Smith and Sachin Tendulkar are the only ones to lead him at the moment, in the One-Day International Batting chart and only Kumar Sangakkara, team mate Michael Hussey and Jacques Kallis ahead in the test rankings.[1][2] He has scored over 10,000 Test runs at an average near 59, but since the February 2002 tour of South Africa (when he was elevated to the ODI team captaincy) he has scored 24 of his Test centuries and averaged above 74, leading to comparisons with Sir Donald Bradman.[3][4]

Ponting is also Australia's leading ODI run-scorer and century maker he has the second most centuries ever, behind only Tendulkar. His century against the West Indies in Jaipur at the 1996 Cricket World Cup made him the youngest ever World Cup centurion, and his unbeaten 140 against India in the 2003 Cricket World Cup final was the highest by a captain in a World Cup final. In 2007 Cricket World Cup match against South Africa at St Kitts, Ponting became the first Australian to reach 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket and the 7th in world cricket to achieve this distinction.

An innings-by-innings breakdown of Ponting's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).
An innings-by-innings breakdown of Ponting's Test match batting career, showing runs scored (red bars) and the average of the last ten innings (blue line).

Like many Australian batsmen, Ricky Ponting is particularly strong against pace bowling, with the full array of back foot shots, including the pull, hook, and square cut. Early on, he was regarded as a near-compulsive hooker, but he has lately moderated this tendency. He tends to move across his off stump, and has therefore been regarded as vulnerable to LBW early in his innings. He is less adept against spin bowling, particularly on very helpful spinning pitches such as those in India where his average is just 12.28.

After his first 30 Tests in just under four years his average was 38.62, and after rising into the mid-40s had dipped again to 40.50 after 45 Tests. Since that time his average has consistently risen; his averages in recent calendar years are 70.93 in 2002, 100.20 in 2003, 41.00 in 2004, 67.13 in 2005 and 88.86 in 2006.[5]

Ponting occasionally bowls medium pace, and has also experimented with off-spin. He is an outstanding fieldsman square of the wicket or at silly point, with fast reactions and hand-eye coordination and (especially in the one-day game) a reputation for hitting the stumps to run out opposition batsmen. A report prepared by [[


In a test against West Indies in 2008, Ricky Ponting scored his 10000th run. ==

[edit] Career Summary

[edit] Early years

Ponting attended school at Mowbray Primary and then Brooks High School in Launceston, and then attended the Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy from 1992 to 1993.

The nephew of Tasmanian Test cricketer and fast bowler Greg Campbell, Ponting played his junior cricket for Mowbray Cricket Club and attracted attention at an early age. Nicknamed Punter by Shane Warne for his love of greyhound-racing, he left school at 16 to attend the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide. After impressing head coach Rod Marsh, Ponting made his Sheffield Shield debut at the age of 17, in the 1992/93 season. He was immediately productive, scoring 782 runs at 46 for the season. He was the youngest Tasmanian to score a first-class century, and the youngest to score centuries in each innings of a match on Australian soil. This put him in contention for selection for the 1993 Ashes tour, and despite being overlooked, he continued his heavy scoring in his second domestic season, scoring 965 at 48.25 to propel the Tasmanians into the Shield final. His form the following year in 1994/95 led to his selection in the Australian XI to play in a four-day match against England, as well as selection for Australia A in the ODI tournament.[6]

[edit] International career begins

Ponting's domestic performances were rewarded when he was selected for the Australian ODI team to play in a quadrangular tournament in New Zealand in early 1995. He played in all of Australia's matches, aggregating 80 runs at 40, highlighted by a 62 against India in Dunedin. He was selected for the subsequent tour of the West Indies, and although he played in two more ODIs, he watched from the dressing room as his teammates reclaimed the Frank Worrell Trophy.[7]

He made his Test debut in the 1st Test against Sri Lanka in December 1995 at Perth, replacing Greg Blewett although due to Steve Waugh's absence through injury Ponting batted at 5. He was out for 96, lbw to Chaminda Vaas. He combined with Stuart Law, also playing on debut, for a partnership of 121. This was only the ninth ever century partnership by debutants in test cricket.

He also featured that season in the ODI team, and attended the 1996 Cricket World Cup, where he batted in the No.3 position, and became the youngest batsman to score a World Cup century, when he achieved the feat in a group match against the West Indies.[8]

With the retirement of fellow Tasmanian David Boon, Ponting was elevated to the No.3 position in the Test team for the series against the West Indies in 1996-97 in Australia. After two Test matches and three scores under 10, he was replaced by Justin Langer and was out of the team for six months. Returning at Leeds in July 1997 he scored his first Test century (127, batting at No.6) but in 1998-99 again failed to hold his place consistently, being dropped in favour of Darren Lehmann on the tour of Pakistan and again in the home series against England.[9] He had played 22 Tests at the end of 1998, with 1209 runs at an average of 36.63. He was a permanent fixture in the ODI team throughout this period.

[edit] Test career consolidates

Ricky Ponting in his Test flannels
Ricky Ponting in his Test flannels

Ponting was in the squad for the 1999 tour of the West Indies, and scored 104 batting at No.6 when recalled to the starting XI for the 3rd Test.[10] Injury aside (he missed a tour of New Zealand after hurting his ankle in a fielding mishap in an ODI Final at Sydney), his position was now secure in spite of a run of poor form in 2001 - this included 17 runs at an average of 3.4 in three Tests in India, dismissed all five times by Harbhajan Singh. Despite this recent run of poor scores, Ponting was promoted to the key No.3 position in the Australian batting order at the expense of Justin Langer, while Damien Martyn took Ponting's former spot at No.6. Ponting began the series poorly, scoring 11[11], 14, 4 [12],14 and 17[13] - the first four dismissals all to Darren Gough - before returning to form at Leeds, scoring 144 and 72 in a dead-rubber.[14] Starting with that 2001 Ashes series he has batted No.3 in all but four of his Test innings. Despite his initial failure, Ponting has averaged 68.76 since his promotion, scoring 26 of his 33 centuries (as of March 2007)[15].

In late 2003, Ponting scored double-centuries in back-to-back Tests against India, at Adelaide (242) and at Melbourne (257, his career high).[16][17] Having also scored 206 at Port-of-Spain earlier in the year, he became only the second player (Sir Donald Bradman the other) to hit three double-centuries in a calendar year.[18]

[edit] ODI Captaincy

Although the Test team had continued to perform well, sweeping South Africa 3-0 in the home series in 2001-02, the One-Day International (ODI) team suffered a slump, failing to qualify for the finals of the triangular tournament, leading to the dropping of Steve Waugh from the one-day team in February 2002. Ponting was elevated to the captaincy, ahead of then vice-captain Adam Gilchrist. The fortunes of the ODI team revived and Ponting led his team to a dominant, undefeated, performance in the 2003 Cricket World Cup. The Final, in which India were defeated by a record (for World Cup Final matches) 125 runs, featured Ponting's brilliant 140 from 121 balls.

On 12 March 2006, Ponting scored 164 in only 105 balls in the 5th ODI against South Africa in Johannesburg, as Australia made a record total of 434 for 4, only to be beaten by South Africa's 438 for 9.[19] At the end of the match Ponting was jointly awarded Man of the Match with Herschelle Gibbs.

Ponting has captained Australia 154 times in ODIs for 119 wins and two ties. Winning 77% of matches captained, the best of any captain of any country to have captained more than 20 matches. He has captained Australia in 22 World Cup matches without defeat.

[edit] Test Captaincy

After Steve Waugh's retirement at the beginning of 2004, Ponting assumed the Test captaincy. Since 1997 the Australian team has not always had the same captain for Tests and for ODIs, with Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh being dropped from the ODI team whilst still the Test captain. Ponting is expected to hold his place in both teams for several years to come.

Following the 2007 Warne-Muralitharan Trophy two Test series in Australia (which Australia won 2-0), Ponting's captaincy record is 29 wins from 37 matches, a better ratio of success than any previous Australian captain with more than 10 matches captained (Warwick Armstrong won 8 of 10). He is now third (behind Steve Waugh with 41, and Allan Border with 32) for total wins by Australian captains. He is seventh for wins amongst all Test captains (record also held by Waugh).

[edit] 2005 Ashes Series

Main article: The 2005 Ashes

Australia lost to England 2–1 after starting the series as favourites.[20] Ponting thus became the first Australian captain since Allan Border in 1986–87 to lose an Ashes series. The 2005 series was hailed as one of the great Test series, but Ponting faced significant criticism afterwards and his tenure as captain was questioned.[21][22] In his defence, Ponting said that Australia had simply been outplayed and had not stepped up at crucial moments in the matches. He rejected suggestions that Shane Warne should be captain in his stead.[23]

The series began with a big win to Australia at Lord's, but in the pre-match warm up before the next Test at Edgbaston, an accidental injury to Glenn McGrath led to his late withdrawal from the match. Ponting sent England in to bat after winning the toss, a decision widely criticised. England posted a big first innings total and won the game by 2 runs after a near-successful run chase by bowlers Brett Lee and Michael Kasprowicz on the final day. England had the upper hand throughout the third Test at Old Trafford, where Australia needed to bat through the last day to force a draw. Ponting scored 156, the first Australian century of the series, and was dismissed only four overs from the end of the day. In the fourth Test at Trent Bridge, Australia again batted poorly and was forced to follow-on. In the second innings, Ponting (on a score of 48) was run out by the substitute fielder (Gary Pratt). Ponting reacted angrily, directing a tirade at the English support team in the pavilion concerning the liberal use of substitutes; he was later fined by the match referee. Australia went on to lose the match, despite of a spirited fightback with the ball on the last day, and when the weather-affected fifth Test at The Oval was drawn, the Ashes were officially lost.

[edit] 2006/07 Ashes Series

Main article: 2006-07 Ashes series
Ponting and Shane Warne on the final day of the 2006-07 Adelaide Test match against England.
Ponting and Shane Warne on the final day of the 2006-07 Adelaide Test match against England.

The setback to Australia, and to Ponting as Australian captain, of the 2005 Ashes defeat, was to prove a strong motivation for the Australian camp to improve their standards and overcome any complacency that may have arisen from Australia's being the world's premier cricketing nation for a decade or so. In November 2006, the England cricket team again took on Australia in the first test of a five test series that was widely expected to be a tremendous contest between Australia, the top team on the world cricket rankings, and the England team, whose aggregated results over the last few years had it standing second in the rankings. Despite Australia this time having the advantage of playing on its own soil, the England team that had wrested the Ashes from the Australians was expected to be highly competitive.

In the First Test in Brisbane, Ponting top-scored in Australia's first innings with 196 runs, and he followed this up with 60 not out in the second.

In the Second Test in Adelaide, Ponting top-scored with 142, and helping Australia to a total of 513 in response to England's 6/551. Australia went on to win the match by six wickets.

The third Test played at the WACA Ground saw another win to Australia by 206 runs to reclaim the Ashes. The 15 months they had been in English hands was the shortest period either nation had held the urn. Further wins in Melbourne and Sydney, made Ponting's team the second team (after Warwick Armstrong's Australian team in 1920-21) to win an Ashes series 5-0, and that against what had been thought to be a formidable enemy, the second strongest cricketing team in the world. Under Ponting's leadership, the Australians have equalled the longest winning streak of 16 games held also by Australia, under the captaincy of Steve Waugh.

Ricky Ponting was awarded Man of the Series for the 2006-07 Ashes series after scoring 576 runs at an average of 82.29 including 2 centuries and 2 half centuries.

[edit] Recent Batting Form

Following the England tour, Ponting retained the captaincy and began a rich run of batting form. In the 2005-06 season, he scored a century in both innings of a Test match three times and became the first player to score a century in each innings of his 100th Test match. He is only the second player (after Sunil Gavaskar) to score centuries in both innings of a Test match 3 times and the first to do so in a single season. Across 12 matches in Australia, South Africa and Bangladesh in that season, Ponting scored 1483 runs at an average of 78.05 with 8 centuries. In the first game of the 2007 World cup he made 113 runs against Scotland. He started the 07/08 series well but in the CB series until Australia's last match against India where he and another poor performing Australian batsmen, Andrew Symonds put on a 100 run partnership with Ponting making a hundred and Symonds making 50.

He began the 2006-07 Ashes series in Australia with scores of 196 and 60 not out at Brisbane and 142 and 49 at Adelaide.[24][25] These two centuries took him past Steve Waugh for the Australian record for Test centuries and raised his career average above 60.[2]. He ended the year with over 1000 runs in a calendar year for the fourth time with a total of 1333 runs at an average of 88.86.[26] In a match against South Africa, at the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Ponting became the seventh batsman to cross 10,000 runs in ODIs and the first Australian to do so. [27]

[edit] Career Records

[edit] Batting Records

  • 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: 34
  • 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.

[edit] Captaincy Records

  • Most victories as ODI captain: 122
  • Highest victory rate as ODI captain in more than 20 matches: 77.90%
  • Highest victory rate as Test captain in more than 20 matches: 77.14%
  • Most Cricket World Cup victories as captain: 22
  • Most Cricket World Cups won as captain: 2, shared with Clive Lloyd
  • Most consecutive Test victories won as captain: 16, shared with Steve Waugh

[edit] Career Highlights

  • 20 November 1992: Ponting makes his First-Class debut for Tasmania against South Australia at the age of 17. He scores an impressive 56 in his first innings.[28]
  • 13 December 1992: Ponting makes his List A debut for Tasmania against Victoria at the age of 17.[29]
  • 15 February 1995: Ponting makes his One Day International debut for Australia against South Africa at the age of 20. [30]
  • 8 December 1995: Ponting makes his Test Match debut for Australia against Sri Lanka at the age of 20. He strikes a fluent 96 to start his Test career in style. [31]
  • 9 January 1996: Ponting scores his first One Day International century for Australia with a mature 123 off 138 balls against Sri Lanka. Ponting came to the crease with Australia in trouble at 3-33 but assisted them to a respectable total of 213.[32]
  • 26 July 1997: Ponting reaches his first Test match century against England at Headingley. This was Ponting's first Ashes innings and his first test innings back from being dropped.[33]
  • 22 March 2002: Ponting captains his first One Day International match for Australia. He has a successful captaincy debut as his team accounted for South Africa by 19 runs at Johannesburg.[34]
  • 23 March 2003: Ponting captains Australia to their third World Cup title. Ponting won Man of the Match in the final with a supreme unbeaten 140 off 122 balls. Australia went through the whole tournament undefeated, winning each of their 11 games.[35]
  • 8 March 2004: Ponting captains his first Test match for Australia. Just as in his One Day captaincy debut, Ponting led his team to victory, this time over Sri Lanka in Galle. [36]
  • 2 January 2006: Ponting plays his 100th Test for Australia in a match against South Africa at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Ponting became the 9th Australian to play 100 Test matches, and the first cricketer to ever score centuries in each innings of their 100th Test match with scores of 120 and 143*.[37]
  • 28 April 2007: Ponting captains Australia to their third consecutive, and fourth overall World Cup title. Once again, Ponting led Australia through the tournament undefeated.[38]
  • 6 January 2008: Ponting captains Australia to a record equalling 16th consecutive Test win in controversial circumstances that prompted the opposing captain, Anil Kumble, to question the spirit in which Ponting's team had played the match.[39][40]
  • 19 January 2008: Ponting, during the second innings of the Third Test in Perth, became the leading run scorer on Australian soil, surpassing the previous record holder Allan Border's mark of 5,743 set in 86 Tests between 1978 and 1994.[41][42]

[edit] Controversies

  • Ponting was involved in a fight outside a pub in Kings Cross, New South Wales in early 1999, and earned a suspension from the national team. He sustained a black eye in the fight.[43]
  • During Australia's tour of India in 1998, Ponting was reportedly thrown out of Equinox night club in Calcutta. The Indian papers reported that Ponting was misbehaving with several women in the nightclub. Ponting was fined for this incident, and later apologised to the nightclub staff.[44]
  • During the 4th Test of the 2005 Ashes series, at Trent Bridge, Ponting was angrily outspoken about the use of substitute fielders by the England side, particularly after being run out by such a substitute. He directed an abusive tirade at the England dressing room and was subsequently fined 75% of his match fee.[45] After England won the match to take a 2-1 lead in the series Ponting returned to the subject of substitutes in an interview with Australian radio "I think it's an absolute disgrace the spirit of the game is being treated like that. It is within the rules; it's just not within the spirit of the game" he said. The England coach Duncan Fletcher later commented on this incident: "He [Ponting] completely blew his top. I did not actually think it at the time but, looking back now, that might be the moment when it became clear that England were going to regain the Ashes."[46]
  • In 2005 he began using cricket bats with a graphite covering over the wooden blade of the bat. This covering was ruled by the MCC to have contravened Law 6.1, which states that bats have to be made of wood, although they may be "covered with material for protection, strengthening or repair not likely to cause unacceptable damage to the ball". Ponting and his bat supplier, Kookaburra Sport, agreed to comply.[47][48]
  • In mid 2006 during a tour of Bangladesh, Ponting was accused of "badgering the umpires until he got what he wanted.[49] He has also been accused of charging at the umpires, which is normally forbidden.[49]
  • Ponting has been fined for dissent on more than one occasion.[50]
  • After the final of the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy, Ponting drew some criticism for appearing to ask BCCI president and Indian politician Sharad Pawar to "leave the podium", while his teammate Damien Martyn pushed him gently in the back, so his team could commence celebrations. The issue, while minor, was solved when Ponting issued a formal apology to Pawar.[51][52]

[edit] Endorsements

[edit] Individual Honours

  • Ponting had earned 14 "Man of the Match" awards in 110 Tests; he also has 25 such awards in 285 One-Day Internationals (including the joint award which he had declined from the Johannesburg match).[19]

[edit] Personal life

With the large financial rewards of international cricket, Ponting is a full-time professional cricketer, although he is involved with Stride Sports, a sports management business which is well-known for managing some of the biggest names in the AFL - including Glenn Archer and Cameron Mooney. A well-known off-field interest of Ponting's is betting on horse and greyhound races, revealed by his nickname, "Punter". Ponting is a talented golfer, playing off a handicap of 1.7.[61] Ricky married his long-time girlfriend, law student Rianna Jennifer Cantor, in June 2002. He has himself credited her as a reason for the maturity evident in his game in recent years. [62] Ponting is a keen supporter - and number one ticket holder - of the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League.[63] On 9 August 2007, Ponting appeared on The AFL Footy Show where he talked about his desire to become a Kangaroos board member.[64] Ricky and wife Rianna have a superstitious liking for the number 14.[65] On 26 February 2008, Ponting and his wife Rianna announced that they expecting their first child.[66]

[edit] Books

[edit] Authored or co-authored

  • Ricky Ponting (2007). Captain's Diary 2007. HarperCollins Publishers Australia. ISBN 0-7322-8153-9. 
  • Ricky Ponting; Geoff Armstrong (2006). Captain's Diary 2006. HarperCollins Publishers Australia. ISBN 0-7322-8153-9. 
  • Ricky Ponting; Brian Murgatroyd (2005). Ashes Diary. HarperCollins Publishers Australia. ISBN 0-7322-8152-0. 
  • Ricky Ponting; Brian Murgatroyd (2004). Ricky Ponting's World Cup Diary. HarperCollins Publishers Australia. ISBN 0-7322-7847-3. 
  • Ricky Ponting; Peter Staples (1998). Ricky Ponting. Ironbark Press. ISBN 0-330-36117-1. 

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Steve Waugh		 Australian One-Day International cricket captains
2001/2 - present		 Succeeded by
current
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Matthew Hayden		 Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World
2004		 Succeeded by
Shane Warne
Preceded by
Adam Gilchrist		 Allan Border Medal winner
2004		 Succeeded by
Michael Clarke
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Michael Clarke		 Allan Border Medal winner
2006-07		 Succeeded by
Brett Lee
Preceded by
Andrew Flintoff joint with Jacques Kallis		 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy
2006		 Succeeded by
current holder
Preceded by
Andrew Flintoff		 Compton-Miller medal
2006/7		 Succeeded by
current
Preceded by
Andrew Flintoff joint with Shane Warne		 Ashes Man Of The Series
2006/2007		 Succeeded by
current holder
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Australian batsmen with a Test batting average above 50
Minimum 20 innings. Current players are listed in italics.
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Batsmen with 10,000 or more runs in Test cricket
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Batsmen with 10,000 or more runs in ODI cricket
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Australia squad - 1996 Cricket World Cup (runners-up)
1 Taylor (c) • 2 Bevan • 3 Fleming • 4 Healy (wk) • 5 Law • 6 Lee • 7 McDermott • 8 McGrath • 9 Ponting • 10 Reiffel • 11 Slater • 12 Warne • 13 ME Waugh • 14 SR Waugh
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Australia squad - 1999 Cricket World Cup (2nd title)
1 S Waugh (c) • 2 Bevan • 3 Fleming • 4 Reiffel • 5 Warne • 6 M Waugh • 7 Julian • 8 Lee • 9 Moody • 10 Lehmann • 11 McGrath • 12 Gilchrist • 13 Dale • 14 Ponting • 15 Martyn • Coach: Marsh
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Australia squad - 2003 Cricket World Cup (3rd title)
1 Ponting • 2 Gilchrist • 3 Bevan • 4 Bichel • 5 Bracken • 6 Gillespie • 7 Harvey • 8 Hauritz • 9 Hayden • 10 Hogg • 11 Lee • 12 Lehmann • 13 Maher • 14 Martyn • 15 McGrath • 16 Symonds • 17 Warne • 18 Watson • Coach: Buchanan
Jason Gillespie, Shane Warne and Shane Watson were named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament
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Australia squad - 2007 Cricket World Cup (4th title)
8 Clark • 11 McGrath • 14 Ponting (c) • 17 Hodge • 18 Gilchrist • 23 Clarke • 25 Johnson • 28 Hayden • 31 Hogg • 32 Tait • 33 Watson • 48 Hussey • 57 Haddin • 58 Lee • 59 Bracken • 63 Symonds • Coach: Buchanan
Brett Lee was named in the original squad but withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by Stuart Clark
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Kolkata Knight Riders – current squad

0 Butt • 1 Ganguly (c) • 2 Dinda • 5 Hafeez • 6 Saha • 7 Shukla • 8 D.Hussey • 11 Chopra • 13 Taibu • 14 Akhtar • 25 Kartik • 29 I.Sharma • 42 McCullum • 68 Agarkar •  Abdulla •  Bannerjee •  Bose •  Das •  Gayle •  Gul •  Mendis •  Hodge •  Kaul •  Lahiri •  Ponting •  Pujara •  Yashpal Singh • Coach Buchanan
Persondata
NAME Ponting, Ricky Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Cricketer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Launceston, Tasmania
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH