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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

Ricky Ponting's Batting [Six of The Year]

Tribute to Ricky Ponting

Steve Smith

Steve Smith Biography

Full Name: Steven Barry Smith

Date of Birth: Oct 18, 1961, Sydney, New South Wales

Major Team: Australia, New South Wales, Transvaal

Playing Roll: Batsman

Batting Style: Right

Steve Smith was a 23-year-old on the brink of the Australian side when he threw in his lot with the rebel tour of South Africa. A right-hand opener and a good fielder, Smith made his debut for NSW in 1981-82 scoring 245 runs at 40.83; the following summer was even better, and his maiden first-class hundred was a career-best 263 against Victoria.

His one-day international debut was equally impressive, scoring a hundred in his third match against New Zealand at Melbourne. He continued to be a part of the ODI squad, toured Sri Lanka and finally made his Test debut in the Caribbean in 1983-84 but struggled against the West Indies pace barrage, making 41 runs in three Tests.

Steve Smith

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Shane Watson

Shane Watson Biography

Full name Shane Robert Watson

Born June 17, 1981, Ipswich, Queensland

Major teams Australia, Hampshire, Queensland, Tasmania

Playing role All-rounder

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm fast-medium

Shane Watson came into the Australian team as an all rounder. He made his ODI debut against South Africa in 2002. He is a useful all rounder who, after having a brief, yet successful career with Tasmania got a call up to the national side, who were in pursuit of a young all rounder ahead of the 2003 World Cup. But like most of his career, Watson had to give the World Cup a miss owing to injury. Injury has plagued his entire career and he has lost out on many occasions for the lack of fitness. However, in his 43 ODIs he has scored a total of 507 runs at a moderate average of 31 and has taken 37 wickets. He has also played 3 Tests for Australia but has not been able to quite establish a name for himself yet.

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Shane Watson

Shane Watson 126 VS West indies

Shane Watson's inning against Bangladesh 185* in 96 balls

Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey Biography

Michael Hussey is an Australian international cricket player, who was born on May 27, 1975 in Morley, Western Australia. David Hussey, his younger brother is also a cricketer, who plays for Australia. He is married to Amy and they have three children. Nicknamed “Huss”, “The Huss”, and “Mr. Cricket”, Michael Hussey is primarily a left-handed batsman and can also bowl medium pace.

On November 3, 2005, Michael Hussey made his Test debut for the Australian national cricket team in a series against the West Indies in which he came in as a substitute for Justin Langer, a teammate. In the following match of this series, Michael Hussey scored his maiden century, a 137 in the first innings and remained not out at 31 in the second one and was named the Man of the Match for his impressive performance.

During the 2005-06 South African tour of Australia, Michael Hussey set up a 107-run 10th wicket partnership with Glen McGrath, following which he scored his career best score, 182, which came in a 320-run partnership with Jason Gillespie in a Spring 2006 2-test series match against Bangladesh. On April 18, 2006, he set a record by notching up 1000 runs in Test matches in only 166 days, which is the fastest as of 2008.

His 20th Test innings came in the first innings of the first match at the 2006-07 Ashes series, during which he scored 86 runs and earned the second place in the all-time batting average list for his batting average of 99.94, only next to Sir Donald Bradman. Michael Hussey also became one of the quickest players to reach the top 10 of the International Cricket Council (ICC) cricket ratings. He maintained a commendable average of 105.25 throughout the Ashes series, and helped his team to a 5-0 win.

During the Warne-Muralidaran Trophy against Sri Lanka, Michael Hussey scored two Test centuries and also set up a 254 run partnership with Michael Clarke, a teammate, which became the third highest fourth-wicket partnership against Sri Lanka. As of 2008, he has played a total of twenty five test matches, scoring 2325 runs, his best being 182.

On February 1, 2004, Michael Hussey made his One Day International (ODI) debut in a 5-wicket win against India. On February 6, 2006, his impressive performances earned him the Australian One-Day Player of the Year award at the annual Allan Border Medal presentation. Michael Hussey became ICC's ODI Player of the Year and was also named in ICC World ODI XI team on November 3, 2006 at the annual ICC Awards in Mumbai.

Michael Hussey captained Australia for the first time in the DLF Cup second round match against West Indies and set up a 165-run partnership with his team mate, Brad Haddin, which became a world record sixth-wicket partnership in all ODIs. In the first match of the 2008 ODI series in Bangladesh, Michael Hussey was named as the Man of the Match for his top score of 85 runs, following which he scaled to the second rank in the ICC ODI Player Rankings. He has featured in 93 ODIs, scoring 2457 runs, his highest being 109*.

Michael Hussey

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Mike Hussey

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