[VIDEOS] How will you remember Ricky Ponting?

[RizwanT20Champ]

You don’t just play with Warne and McGrath in your side.

You can’t turn a captain like Tatenda Taibu into Ricky Ponting by giving him Warne and McGrath

The Aussies especially in that era were all massive personalities in their own right. They were filled with leaders all around. A captain like Ponting, Waugh were the right material to keep them in check and get the best out of them.

Sure, Ricky would have achieved the same results and won WCs with Sharjeel, Asif Ali, Azam Khan and Sarfaraz. No doubt.

 

[Rana]

Warne and McGrath perform when your batters 1-7 do their job

Ponting wasn’t a bowling captain like Misbah hahahahahahaahahahaahahahahahhahahahaahahahahaahhahahahahaahahhahaahhahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahhahahahaahahha

 

[Fanboy375]

Stats don't lie. Ponting has scored valuable runs in fewer matches compared to him.

Ponting shined in 2000s test.Except that he is not same as Sachin and Lara.In odi he had upper head over Lara.Sachin still had better strike rate

 

[Fanboy375]

Stats say otherwise though.

He did had a century in 2003 final

 

[Fanboy375]

Naw, Sachin scored more in fewer matches.

For pointing to surpass Sachin in odi in the same No of matches, He'd have to score a century in every 4 games he would play.

Pointing 375 games = 30 centuries scored
Sachin 464 games = 49 centuries scored

Although tbf if Pointing played in this era he'd be able to do it lol, but not in that era.

Pointing peak is still better then Tendulkar but as I said, Tendulkar automatically gets better points due to being consistent for 24 years.

For Tendulkar you don't have to search for certain years to justify whereas for pointing you'd have to say things like, I am not comparing 2011 pointing to Sachin, let's compare 2003 pointing to Sachin..

Sachin can convert fifty to century more likely than Ponting,Kallis and Sanga.Ponting,Kallis and Sanga has many 50s but they lack power to score bigger.

 

[Fanboy375]

Ponting played in an era where batting was very easy.

Look at number of top bowlers in 90s and compare it with 2000s:-

90s - Ambrose, Wasim, Donald, McGrath, Pollock, Waqar, Walsh, Bishop

2000s - McGrath, Steyn, Shoaib

Shoaib in 2000s was same as Bishop in 1990s.

On average they are almost same.Ind bowling attack was better in 2000s than 1990s.Aus had Lee.SA bowling improved a lot.WI and Zim didn't have same bowling power.SL had Murali and Vaas taking wickets.NZ gained better bowling attack So you have some teams losing their previous bowling power while some teams bowling attack improved.But 90s has slide edge but not much.

 

[BouncerGuy]

Thread is not about steve waugh or ganguly or Kohli so do not derail the thread anymore