Ricky Ponting
Ponting Hundred Unhinges New Zealand
Cricket: An unbeaten Ricky Ponting century and Adam Gilchrist's quick fire 51 gave Australia a seven-wicket one-day victory over New Zealand
Zimbabwe Win Puts Ponting in Twenty20 Rage
Cricket: World Twenty20: Ricky Ponting condemned his side's batting as 'diabolical' after Zimbabwe's remarkable victory over Australia.
The Ashes: Kevin Mitchell on Ricky Ponting
Cricket: Kevin Mitchell believes that events down under are evidence of Ricky Ponting's growing maturity as captain of Australia.
The Ashes: Australian Press Round-up
Cricket: The Australian papers were quick to pay tribute to Ricky Ponting's leadership as his side regained the Ashes.
'There Are No Excuses'
Cricket: The Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants his side to whitewash England after their series-clinching victory in Perth.
'The Ashes Are Back Where They Belong'
Cricket: The Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants his side to whitewash England after their series-clinching victory in Perth.
Ponting Wants Big Payback
Cricket: Ricky Ponting says it will take a whitewash to appease Australia for their loss in the last Ashes series.
Cricket: Ricky Ponting Scores a Century As Australia Dominate the First Day of the Ashes Series
After the first day of the most-hyped cricket series in living memory, Australia are already in a position where they cannot lose the match.
Ponting Attacked Over Australian Cricket Captaincy
Cricket: A second former Australian Test star has raised doubts over Ricky Ponting's continued captaincy of the side.
Ricky Ponting
Cricket: Ricky Ponting has enough on his plate with his own squad without worrying about Andrew Flintoff, writes Mike Selvey
Cricket: Ponting on the Defensive
Ricky Ponting has been busy pulling his foot from his mouth after saying that Bangladesh did not deserve Test status.
Cricket: Ponting 'a Disgrace' Says Rowan
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has asked his players to improve their image after mounting criticism of their on-field behaviour.
Mercurial Ponting Leads Australia Home
Cricket: Ricky Ponting becomes the only man to score centuries in each innings of his 100th Test as his side overcome South Africa.
Ponting Marks 100th Test in Style
Cricket: Ricky Ponting marked his 100th Test with a century and Adam Gilchrist blazed his way back into form on the third day in Sydney - but South Africa remained on top.
Australia Captain Ricky Ponting Has Descri
Cricket: Australia captain Ricky Ponting has described comments made by Graeme Smith and Shane Warne as nothing more than banter.
Cricket: Ponting Plays Down Sledging Fears
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has described comments made by Graeme Smith and Shane Warne as nothing more than banter.
Ponting Leads Fight From the Front
Cricket: Ricky Ponting played a captain's innings to help Australia reach 340-7 at the close of day one at the first Test against West Indies.
Defiant Ponting Vows to Fight on
Cricket: The Ashes: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is determined to reclaim the urn when his side next face England - in just 14 months' time.
Ponting's Vow to Reclaim Ashes
Cricket: The Ashes: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is determined to reclaim the urn when his side next face England - in just 14 months' time.
Ponting blows fuse as substitute fielder powers England onwards
Cricket: Fourth Test, Third Day. If you're lucky enough to know an Australian, now is a good time to invite him around for dinner and a little gloating over a nice bottle of Grange Hermitage.
The Ashes: Ponting's Heroics Leave All to Play for
Cricket: Ricky Ponting hit 156 as Australia's tailenders clung on to claim a dramatic third Test draw at Old Trafford and set up a dramatic climax.
The Ashes: Spot the Winners and Losers: Vaughan Drained, Ponting Positive
Cricket: After one of the tightest finishes in Test cricket, neither captain seemed to have got to grips with the madness of it all, says Lawrence Booth
The Ashes: Ponting Rubs Salt in Old Wounds
Cricket: Ricky Ponting said the gap between the two teams was "quite vast" and refused to rule out the possibility of a 5-0 whitewash.
Cricket: Ponting Comes Good
Australians square the lacklustre one-day series by beating England with seven wickets in hand.
Aussies Benefit From Lord's Effect
Cricket: Ricky Ponting scored a sublime century to lead Australia to an emphatic seven-wicket victory in the second game of the NatWest Challenge.
Cricket: Ponting Prepared to Raise the Stakes
Australia are ready to adopt the uncompromising ways of old to combat Engalnd's hostility, both on the field and off it.
The Ashes: Ponting's Tourists Arriving in Strength
Cricket: Australia will tour England with a team comparable to the magnificent West Indies side of the 1980s and the 1948 Aussie team.
Kiwis Feel Ponting's Force in Inaugural Twenty20 Clash
Cricket: Ricky Ponting blasted 98 off 55 as Australia trounced New Zealand in the inaugural men's Twenty20 international.
Ponting and Gilchrist Flay Pakistan to Set Up Series Sweep
Cricket: Australia are on the verge of completing a series whitewash after Pakistan finished the third day still 197 runs in arrears of their host's first innings total of 568.
Cricket: Ponting Relieved to Lead By Example
Australia homed in on a series whitewash against Pakistan as Ricky Ponting's unbeaten 155 put them in control of the final Test.
ICC Champions Trophy: 'waste of Time' Thrashing Angers Ponting
September 14: Australia's demolition job of the USA in less than two hours left Australia's captain in scathing mood.
Ponting Prepares for Quick Assault
July 17: Australia captain Ricky Ponting has found time in between punishing the world's best attacks to punish some county ones too.
Ponting Puts Aussies 1-0 Up
Australia won the first match of the VB Series final against India by seven wickets after captain Ricky Ponting smashed 88 off 80 balls.
Ponting Power Leads Australia to Glory
Led by an astounding partnership between Ricky Ponting and Damien Martyn, Australia pulverised India into a humiliating loss and retained the World Cup.
Punter plays straight
When Ricky Ponting woke up yesterday morning to learn that Steve Waugh had decided to make himself available for Australia's tour to the West Indies, he might have permitted himself at least a smile. If Waugh is selected this evening, he will tour as captain; Ponting, installed as Waugh's successor in the one-day team at this World Cup, knows that the bigger prize of leading the Test side has been put on hold, but not for long.
Ponting Making His Mark As Captain
February 19: He has his critics as captain, but Ricky Ponting has maintained an integrity and purpose that has brought two wins of ominous certainty.
Ponting Leads Australia Charge
Patiently, skilfully and with immaculate placement and timing Ricky Ponting laid down the building blocks of the Australian reply yesterday afternoon. Ponting had, by a distance, made the best hundred of the three scored in the first Test in Brisbane and in a shade under three hours, on...
Ponting hails "a perfect day"
Matthew Hayden offered a crumb of comfort to England captain Nasser Hussain after making his decision to bowl in the first Ashes Test look like a howler.
Ponting sees off South Africa
Ricky Ponting, the new one-day captain of Australia, scored his first limited-overs international century against South Africa, scoring 129 as his team raced to a 290 for six wickets to win by 37 runs in Bloemfontein in the fourth of seven matches between the sides.
Cricket: Kevin Mitchell believes that events down under are evidence of Ricky Ponting's growing maturity as captain of Australia.
The Ashes: Australian Press Round-up
Cricket: The Australian papers were quick to pay tribute to Ricky Ponting's leadership as his side regained the Ashes.
'There Are No Excuses'
Cricket: The Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants his side to whitewash England after their series-clinching victory in Perth.
'The Ashes Are Back Where They Belong'
Cricket: The Australian captain Ricky Ponting wants his side to whitewash England after their series-clinching victory in Perth.
Ponting Wants Big Payback
Cricket: Ricky Ponting says it will take a whitewash to appease Australia for their loss in the last Ashes series.
Cricket: Ricky Ponting Scores a Century As Australia Dominate the First Day of the Ashes Series
After the first day of the most-hyped cricket series in living memory, Australia are already in a position where they cannot lose the match.
Ponting Attacked Over Australian Cricket Captaincy
Cricket: A second former Australian Test star has raised doubts over Ricky Ponting's continued captaincy of the side.
Ricky Ponting
Cricket: Ricky Ponting has enough on his plate with his own squad without worrying about Andrew Flintoff, writes Mike Selvey
Cricket: Ponting on the Defensive
Ricky Ponting has been busy pulling his foot from his mouth after saying that Bangladesh did not deserve Test status.
Cricket: Ponting 'a Disgrace' Says Rowan
Australia skipper Ricky Ponting has asked his players to improve their image after mounting criticism of their on-field behaviour.
Mercurial Ponting Leads Australia Home
Cricket: Ricky Ponting becomes the only man to score centuries in each innings of his 100th Test as his side overcome South Africa.
Ponting Marks 100th Test in Style
Cricket: Ricky Ponting marked his 100th Test with a century and Adam Gilchrist blazed his way back into form on the third day in Sydney - but South Africa remained on top.
Australia Captain Ricky Ponting Has Descri
Cricket: Australia captain Ricky Ponting has described comments made by Graeme Smith and Shane Warne as nothing more than banter.
Cricket: Ponting Plays Down Sledging Fears
Australia captain Ricky Ponting has described comments made by Graeme Smith and Shane Warne as nothing more than banter.
Ponting Leads Fight From the Front
Cricket: Ricky Ponting played a captain's innings to help Australia reach 340-7 at the close of day one at the first Test against West Indies.
Defiant Ponting Vows to Fight on
Cricket: The Ashes: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is determined to reclaim the urn when his side next face England - in just 14 months' time.
Ponting's Vow to Reclaim Ashes
Cricket: The Ashes: Australian skipper Ricky Ponting is determined to reclaim the urn when his side next face England - in just 14 months' time.
Ponting blows fuse as substitute fielder powers England onwards
Cricket: Fourth Test, Third Day. If you're lucky enough to know an Australian, now is a good time to invite him around for dinner and a little gloating over a nice bottle of Grange Hermitage.
The Ashes: Ponting's Heroics Leave All to Play for
Cricket: Ricky Ponting hit 156 as Australia's tailenders clung on to claim a dramatic third Test draw at Old Trafford and set up a dramatic climax.
The Ashes: Spot the Winners and Losers: Vaughan Drained, Ponting Positive
Cricket: After one of the tightest finishes in Test cricket, neither captain seemed to have got to grips with the madness of it all, says Lawrence Booth
The Ashes: Ponting Rubs Salt in Old Wounds
Cricket: Ricky Ponting said the gap between the two teams was "quite vast" and refused to rule out the possibility of a 5-0 whitewash.
Cricket: Ponting Comes Good
Australians square the lacklustre one-day series by beating England with seven wickets in hand.
Aussies Benefit From Lord's Effect
Cricket: Ricky Ponting scored a sublime century to lead Australia to an emphatic seven-wicket victory in the second game of the NatWest Challenge.
Cricket: Ponting Prepared to Raise the Stakes
Australia are ready to adopt the uncompromising ways of old to combat Engalnd's hostility, both on the field and off it.
The Ashes: Ponting's Tourists Arriving in Strength
Cricket: Australia will tour England with a team comparable to the magnificent West Indies side of the 1980s and the 1948 Aussie team.
Kiwis Feel Ponting's Force in Inaugural Twenty20 Clash
Cricket: Ricky Ponting blasted 98 off 55 as Australia trounced New Zealand in the inaugural men's Twenty20 international.
Ponting and Gilchrist Flay Pakistan to Set Up Series Sweep
Cricket: Australia are on the verge of completing a series whitewash after Pakistan finished the third day still 197 runs in arrears of their host's first innings total of 568.
Cricket: Ponting Relieved to Lead By Example
Australia homed in on a series whitewash against Pakistan as Ricky Ponting's unbeaten 155 put them in control of the final Test.
ICC Champions Trophy: 'waste of Time' Thrashing Angers Ponting
September 14: Australia's demolition job of the USA in less than two hours left Australia's captain in scathing mood.
Ponting Prepares for Quick Assault
July 17: Australia captain Ricky Ponting has found time in between punishing the world's best attacks to punish some county ones too.
Ponting Puts Aussies 1-0 Up
Australia won the first match of the VB Series final against India by seven wickets after captain Ricky Ponting smashed 88 off 80 balls.
Ponting Power Leads Australia to Glory
Led by an astounding partnership between Ricky Ponting and Damien Martyn, Australia pulverised India into a humiliating loss and retained the World Cup.
Punter plays straight
When Ricky Ponting woke up yesterday morning to learn that Steve Waugh had decided to make himself available for Australia's tour to the West Indies, he might have permitted himself at least a smile. If Waugh is selected this evening, he will tour as captain; Ponting, installed as Waugh's successor in the one-day team at this World Cup, knows that the bigger prize of leading the Test side has been put on hold, but not for long.
Ponting Making His Mark As Captain
February 19: He has his critics as captain, but Ricky Ponting has maintained an integrity and purpose that has brought two wins of ominous certainty.
Ponting Leads Australia Charge
Patiently, skilfully and with immaculate placement and timing Ricky Ponting laid down the building blocks of the Australian reply yesterday afternoon. Ponting had, by a distance, made the best hundred of the three scored in the first Test in Brisbane and in a shade under three hours, on...
Ponting hails "a perfect day"
Matthew Hayden offered a crumb of comfort to England captain Nasser Hussain after making his decision to bowl in the first Ashes Test look like a howler.
Ponting sees off South Africa
Ricky Ponting, the new one-day captain of Australia, scored his first limited-overs international century against South Africa, scoring 129 as his team raced to a 290 for six wickets to win by 37 runs in Bloemfontein in the fourth of seven matches between the sides.