Bio-Data of Ricky Ponting: Australia

Ricky Thomas Ponting is the successful captain in Australia. is an Australian cricketer and current captain of the Australia national cricket team (for both One-Day International and Test cricket). Ricky Ponting is also Captain of the Tasmanian Tigers, although international duties make it difficult for him to appear for them. He is a specialist right-hand batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as being a very occasional, but aggressive, right-arm medium pacer.

Full name Ricky Thomas Ponting

Born December 19, 1974, Launceston, Tasmania

Current age 32 years 291 days

Major teams Australia, ICC World XI, Somerset, Tasmania

Nickname Punter

Playing role Higher middle order batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Height 1.78 m

Education Mowbray Primary; Brooks Senior High School, Launceston

Quick singles

Twenty20 nickname: Punter

My Ideal holiday destination is: Italy

Best advice I’ve ever received is: Watch the ball

The meal/food I am best at cooking is: Pasta

When I was 8-years-old I wanted to be: Test cricketer

My favourite way to relax away from cricket is: Golf

My worst habit is: Biting fingernails

My sporting (non-cricket) hero is: Jack Nicklaus

CAREER STATISTICS

Batting / Fielding

	M	In	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	SR	100	50	Ct	St
TEST	110	183	25	9368	257	59.29	58.96	33	36	124	0
ODI	281	273	32	10420	164	43.24	80.21	23	62	123	0
Twenty20 Int	9	9	2	239	98	34.14	136.57	0	1	5	0
First-Class	205	345	50	17750	257	60.17		66	71		0
Aus One-day dom	34	34	4	971	102	32.37		1	6	15	0
Aus Twenty20 dom	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Bowling

	M	Balls	Runs	Wkts	BBI	BBM	Ave	Eco	SR	5	10
TEST	110	527	231	5	1/0	1/0	46.20	2.63	105.4	0	0
ODI	281	150	104	3	1/12	-	34.67	4.16	50.0	0
Twenty20 Int	9	0	0	0	-	-				0
First-Class	205	1422	757	14	2/10	2/10	54.07	3.19	101.6	0	0
Aus One-day dom	34	175	143	5	3/34	-	28.60	4.90	35.0	0
Aus Twenty20 dom	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Information sources

CrickInfo

Cricket Australia

Wikipedia