Famous and Hot Celebrities: Ricky Ponting

Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting Biography

If We go through Ricky Ponting Biography, It will make us aware of his struggle for the quest of the stature he now posses. Ponting was born on December 19, 1974 at the Launceston, Tasmania, Australia.Ricky Ponting is the eldest of Graeme and Lorraine Ponting’s four children. He got the full name as Ricky Thomas Ponting and he is now 36 years old.He got married long-time girlfriend Law student Rianna Jennifer Cantor—in June 2002, Ponting credited her as the reason for his increased maturity. Their daughter Emmy Charlotte was born in Sydney on 26 July 2008.

Ricky Ponting got the nick name as Punter, height is 1.78m which would be 5 ft 10 in. Ponting keeps the Batting style as Right-hand batsman, slips and close catching fielder and the Bowling style as Right-arm medium.

Ponting got his first Test debut (cap 366) 8 December 1995 v Sri Lanka. He got his first boast of career at the time when he scored four centuries for the Under-13s in a Tasmanian cricket week and the success brought him another pair of the centuries to the Under-16 team. When Ponting reached to the age of the 20, he was the maker of the Test (international match) debut already. After this period he had to face some criticism of his career but the next ten years of his struggle proved his worth.

Ponting proved himself and landed as the Captain of the Australia’s one-day international side which by the up coming year led to the victory in the World Cup in South Africa but the story does not end here, I just get wonder struck to know that he got the chance to led Australia with another three cups during the period of the

1999 to 2007. After this golden and successful period of his life, Ponting got the seat of the

captain Steve Waugh on his retirement.

Ricky Ponting