Born as the eldest of the four children of Lorraine and Graeme on December 19 in Tasmania, Ricky Thomas Ponting made his debut as a number six against South Africa in the Quadrangular series that included India and New Zealand also.
I probably have not been such a faithful fan of Punter to quote all this statistics and hence I had to quote my friends from Wikipedia.
Australia won the world cup for the first time in the year 1987 and there was no turning back since then. They have been putting up a phenomenal performance every single time and from 1999 till last Thursday the Aussies were pwning the international arena.
Now, coming back to Ricky Ponting, he was part of the world cup team for the first time in 1996 and ended the tourney with a decent average of 32 odd runs. And then started his dream run. Ponting was always groomed to become the captain one day and he took the torch from the legendary Steve Waugh when Steve underperformed in 2002.
And there was no turning back from then. Ponting is easily one of the best players, perhaps, at times he was on top of everybody, even the over-hyped Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. I respect Sachin and all that, but he is over-hyped. Dot.
He is a captain whom I consider the best only next to Sourav Ganguly.
Again, I'm not good with stats and hence being the simple and silent fan I am, I restrict myself to telling everyone who reads this the reasons why whoever is bitching about Ponting shouldn't be bitching about him:
~ First up, Ponting is one of the VERY BEST, agree or don't read further.
~ You hate Ponting because others do, ask yourself and you'll know you cried everytime he got out between 95-99.
~ You and I weren't around when Bradman played and cricket has changed in a million ways since then. Ponting is Australia's greatest for my generation. Of course excluding Glenn-God-Mcgrath and Shane Warne.
~ The way he plays the lofted cover drive has given orgasms to many. You're kidding yourselves if you are even trying to disagree.
~ You have played cricket since you outgrew the length of a bat and still you'd love to play if you getting out goes unnoticed. Stop cribbing.
~ The pressure of defending the world cup for the second consecutive time. IMAGINE how humongous it would be and yet he scored a brilliant century in the very same match where others failed.
~ I haven't jumped or enjoyed my beer along with a million other Australians when Ricky scored a century every time but many a time I have been one of the very firsts to heave a sigh of relief once he crosses 99. To pull statistics he is just a few runs short of Sachin whose statistics stands the tallest.
Respect him, cheer for him, put your hands together and let yours, yes you the silent fan who was ashamed to rejoice when the man scored, be one of the first drop of tears that fall when Ricky Thomas Ponting leaves the field for one last time.
All hail number 14!
I probably have not been such a faithful fan of Punter to quote all this statistics and hence I had to quote my friends from Wikipedia.
Australia won the world cup for the first time in the year 1987 and there was no turning back since then. They have been putting up a phenomenal performance every single time and from 1999 till last Thursday the Aussies were pwning the international arena.
Now, coming back to Ricky Ponting, he was part of the world cup team for the first time in 1996 and ended the tourney with a decent average of 32 odd runs. And then started his dream run. Ponting was always groomed to become the captain one day and he took the torch from the legendary Steve Waugh when Steve underperformed in 2002.
And there was no turning back from then. Ponting is easily one of the best players, perhaps, at times he was on top of everybody, even the over-hyped Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. I respect Sachin and all that, but he is over-hyped. Dot.
He is a captain whom I consider the best only next to Sourav Ganguly.
Again, I'm not good with stats and hence being the simple and silent fan I am, I restrict myself to telling everyone who reads this the reasons why whoever is bitching about Ponting shouldn't be bitching about him:
~ First up, Ponting is one of the VERY BEST, agree or don't read further.
~ You hate Ponting because others do, ask yourself and you'll know you cried everytime he got out between 95-99.
~ You and I weren't around when Bradman played and cricket has changed in a million ways since then. Ponting is Australia's greatest for my generation. Of course excluding Glenn-God-Mcgrath and Shane Warne.
~ The way he plays the lofted cover drive has given orgasms to many. You're kidding yourselves if you are even trying to disagree.
~ You have played cricket since you outgrew the length of a bat and still you'd love to play if you getting out goes unnoticed. Stop cribbing.
~ The pressure of defending the world cup for the second consecutive time. IMAGINE how humongous it would be and yet he scored a brilliant century in the very same match where others failed.
~ I haven't jumped or enjoyed my beer along with a million other Australians when Ricky scored a century every time but many a time I have been one of the very firsts to heave a sigh of relief once he crosses 99. To pull statistics he is just a few runs short of Sachin whose statistics stands the tallest.
Respect him, cheer for him, put your hands together and let yours, yes you the silent fan who was ashamed to rejoice when the man scored, be one of the first drop of tears that fall when Ricky Thomas Ponting leaves the field for one last time.
All hail number 14!
Damn! He is one of d best pullers i have eva seen in d history of cricket..
ReplyDeleteHe has a very limited selection of shots but in executing every single one of them,he is magnificent.
ReplyDeleteIt's blasphemy if you say that he had pressure captaining Australia! That team needed no captain! Lets see what the Aussies post 2007 did under Ponting? Virtually nothing apart from champions trophy victory and one or two series victories against some lousy oppositions. He didn't do much either! avg from 2008 - 21, 42,36, 34 in ODI's and 47. 38, 36 in tests.
ReplyDeleteJust look at his stats in India barring that 100 he scored against us in the recent test series, NOTHING.
I am suddenly seeing so much Ponting love, is it because you want to stand out when people jeer Ponting, like on the lines of you accusing people of following the herd when they hate Ponting?
Personally I never stay at the crease if I know i am out! I feel standing there, when you know you bit the dust is a pathetic feeling!
hahaha Sachin is overrated!? Wake up little kid! He wasnt a world cup winner because he had to play along with 10 other jackasses unlike Ponting who played along side bad asses and people say "whenever he scores a hundred India looses" Ha! My foot! If all the other Jabroni's fail what is he supposed to do about that. He does so much and still ends up being called over-hyped! I aint a fan of sachin or any other batsman but i still say that!
Yeah he is good player and all that bleh! But you cant ask people to cheer for him because he is a-hole on the field who always wants everything go his way. He argues with umpires, he gives out to people, claims grounded catches and stays and begs for mercy every time he edges one!
All said and done I saw the interview he gave to HT yesterday along side Ganguly after the quarterfinal loss. He seemed quite a nice chap but why wouldn't he be the same on the field and stop being an a-hole
"Yeah he is good player and all that! But you cant ask people to cheer for him because he is a-hole on the field who always wants everything go his way (cheap attitude). He argues with umpires, he gives out to people, claims grounded catches and stays and begs for mercy every time he edges one!
ReplyDeleteHe seemed quite a nice chap but why wouldn't he be the same on the field and stop being an a-hole!"
Naan sola nenachadu, already said, so i copy, pasted it! :D
I think u are overrating urself and ur crickeet knowldege to think u can say Sachin is being overhyped. I admire Ponting a lot but him better than Sachin? Comedy pannadhe.
ReplyDelete"Over-hyped Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar"? Lol.. I didn know u were this good at jokes..
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