What is Ricky Ponting?
[[File:Ricky Ponting 2015.jpg|thumb|200px|Ponting in 2015]] '''Ricky Thomas Ponting''' {{Small|[[Officer of the Order of Australia|AO]]}} (born 19 December 1974) is an [[Australia]]n [[cricket]] coach, commentator and former cricketer. He is widely thought of as as one of the greatest [[Batting (cricket)|batsmen]] of all time. Ponting captained his country between 2004 and 2011 in [[Test cricket|Tests]] and 2002 and 2011 in [[One Day International]]s (ODIs). With the [[Australia national cricket team|Australian national team]], he has won the [[Cricket World Cup|World Cup]] three times, the [[ICC Champions Trophy]] twice and [[the Ashes]] once.<ref>{{Cite news|work=India Today|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/sports/cricket/story/the-ashes-ricky-ponting-happy-birthday-urn-captain-steve-smith-1108710-2017-12-19|title=The Ashes: As Ricky Ponting turns 43, looking back at the only time he lifted the urn as captain|date=19 December 2017|access-date=21 January 2020}}</ref> He appeared in 168 Tests for Australia between 1995 and 2012. His first Test was against [[Sri Lanka national cricket team|Sri Lanka]] and his last was against [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africa]]. He also played for [[Tasmania cricket team|Tasmania]] from 1992 to 2013.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafrica/content/player/7133.html|title=Ricky Ponting|publisher=[[ESPN]]cricinfo|access-date=21 January 2020}}</ref> Ponting has been assistant coach of the Australia national cricket team since February 2019. Ponting was born in [[Launceston, Tasmania]]. He is married to Rianna Cantor. The couple have three children. ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} *{{Cricketarchive}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Ponting, Ricky}} [[Category:1974 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Australian cricketers]] [[Category:Order of Australia]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Launceston, Tasmania]] {{Sports-bio-stub}}