Cricket News sort by Ricky Thomas Ponting

The 1999/2000 series in Australia was a disastrous tour for the Indians. Led by Sachin Tendulkar, they lost all the three Tests without putting up much of a fight. India’s inability to cope with conditions abroad came to the fore again.

Australia captain Ricky Ponting hit a century for his state side Tasmania to move one step closer to India's Sachin Tendulkar in the list of first-class centuries.

Sri Lankan veteran Kumar Sangakkara has become the latest entrant of the 10000-run club in Tests. And while that is a massive feat in itself it is somewhat unfair that he isn’t considered amongst the best players of his generation in spite of maintaining a consistency on par with the other modern greats of the game.

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South Africa’s 1-0 win over Australia in the latter’s den asserted that they deserve the number one ranking in Tests. At the same time, it wasn’t an easy win for the Proteas.

Ricky Ponting’s decision to quit from the game after the Perth Test did not come as surprise to anybody, but it did add to the long list of veterans who bid good bye to the game this year.

Ricky Ponting’s decision to retire after the end of the Perth Test has set tongues wagging as to whether Sachin Tendulkar would also follow suit. After all, both have been having an equally poor run in international cricket for a couple of seasons now.

It was his pull shot that most amazed. He would be in position so early that you could reasonably wonder if he had powers of precognition, like he knew exactly where the ball would land and that the pull shot was the best response.

Talent is an often overrated quality in sport, and not a sure shot recipe for success. If that was the case people like Vinod Kambli, Basit Ali, Tim Henman and Sania Mirza would have been legends in the respective field.