Ricky Ponting is potentially the best batsman that Australia has delivered since Sir Donald Bradman and his surprising record as a batsman in Tests and ODIs justifies itself with real evidence. This article gives you a more critical investigate the life and times of one of the best batsman that has ever played the game.
Let's take a look at 10 Interesting and unknown facts about 'The Punter' Ricky Ponting:
1. Playing with the brother in the backyard
Ricky Ponting is the eldest of three kin. His more youthful sibling Drew Ponting knocked down some pins to him in the patio, with Ricky batting for quite a long time. At the point when Drew would get his shot, Ricky would reject him soon enough to hold the bat again and continue.
2. Sporting family
Ponting came from a middle-class family. His dad Graeme attempted to be a golfer as an adolescent. He additionally used to turn up for cricket and Aussie Rules Football games. Ponting's mom Lorraine played for Tasmania in vigoro, an amusement that is said to be a blend of cricket and tennis. She was additionally sufficient to play netball and badminton at a good level.
3. First earning through cricket
Ponting's first earning through cricket did not come because of the enchantment of his willow. However, as a young man, he was a piece of the scoreboard group at some Sheffield Shield amusements. For that activity every day, he used to be remunerated with A$ 20.
4. Batting with his father in a club game
Ponting played the greater part of his age gathering and introductory cricket for the Mowbray Cricket Club in Launceston, Tasmania. In one of the amusements, Ponting and his dad Graeme batted together. Be that as it may, to his failure, Ponting senior was rejected early while playing a forceful stroke.
5. Mentored by Ian Young
Ponting's mentor was Ian Young, whose child Shaun went ahead to play for Australia. Truth be told, Shaun Young and Ponting played a Test coordinate together against England on the 1997 Ashes visit to England. Ponting stayed near Ian, until his passing in 2010. Tragically, Ponting couldn't go to the burial service as he was in India, speaking to Australia in a Test coordinate.
6. Giving up school and Football
As a young boy, Ponting needed to settle on extreme decisions to seek after his cricketing tries. At 15 years old, he surrendered football in the wake of agony a damage to his elbow. He additionally dropped out of school in the wake of completing Class 10. "It was a major move I assume, however it was quite certain to everybody by then that cricket was the main thing I thought about," Ponting wrote in his book At Close of Play.
7. Working as a member of the ground staff at a school
As Ponting gave up school, he needed to get a job. His coach, Young organized an arrangement for him as an individual starting from the earliest stage at a school called Scotch Oakburn College. Ponting reviewed, "That job confirmed for me that a life in sport was what I really wanted."
8. First encounter with Sachin Tendulkar
In 1992, when Ponting was a part of the Australian Cricket Academy, he first observed Sachin Tendulkar. Having heard a ton about him, Ponting requested that the experts enable him to remain after practice to watch the Indian youth. "I needed to see Sachin Tendulkar who everybody was discussing, and I took up a position behind the nets while he had a bat. Any reasonable person would agree I would watch him bat for quite a while to come, yet that day I was examining his procedure, attempting to perceive what it was about him," Ponting wrote in his book. Ahead of the pack up to the 1992 World Cup, India played a practice diversion against the Australian Cricket Academy. Tendulkar scored 37 in that match and was gotten by Ponting. The Aussie thus scored 23.
9. Bonding with future teammates
Ponting first fortified with Adam Gilchrist and Glenn McGrath on a visit to South Africa in 1992, where they were speaking to the Australian Cricket Academy. Ponting and Gilchrist sat alongside each other on the flight to South Africa. Ponting got, "on the plane, I scarcely knew Gilly [Adam Gilchrist] yet when we arrived in Jo'burg we were best mates.
10. ‘Punter’ and the Shane Warne connection
During his time at the Academy in Adelaide, Ponting met Shane Warne, who was already a Test cricketer by then. Indeed, Ponting volunteered to bat against Warne at whatever point he needed to bowl and work on his system with Terry Jenner. Ponting's enjoying for puppy races and his propensity for wagering on them incited Warne to dedicate him as "Punter." It was a moniker that stayed with Ponting. Warne had attempted to take Ponting to clubs, yet he would figure out how to escape by concocting a wide range of reasons.
